He eats, but sees not on that bread What glorious radiance there is shed; He drinks from out that chalice fair, Nor marks the sunlight glancing there. Watch! gentle Ronald, watch and pray! And hear once more an old man’s lay: I cannot see the morning poured Ruddy and rich on this gay board; I may not trace the noonday light Wherewith my bread and bowl are bright; But thou, whose words are sooth, hast said That brightness falls on this fair bread; Thou sayest, and thy tones are true, This cup is tinged with heaven’s own hue: I trust thy voice, I know from thee That which I cannot hear nor see. The application of the parable is palpable. Mr. Hawker appended to the ballad the following note:— I have sought in these verses to suggest a shadow of that beautiful instruction to Christian men, the actual and spiritual presence of our Lord in the second Sacrament of His Church; a primal and perpetual doctrine in the faith once delivered to the saints. How sadly the simplicity of this hath and has been distorted and disturbed by the gross and sensuous notion of a carnal presence, introduced by the Romish innovation of the eleventh century![41] The following passage occurs in one of his sermons:— If there be anything in all the earth to which our Lord did join a blessing, and that for evermore, it was the bread and the cup. Surely of this Sacrament, which the apostles served, it may be said, He that receiveth you receiveth Me. Now, nothing can be more certain than that our Lord and Master, before He suffered death, called into His presence the twelve men, the _equal_ founders of His future Church. He stood alone with the twelve. There was nobody else there but those ministers and their Lord. Nothing is more manifest than that He took bread of corn, and showed the apostles in what manner and with what words to bless and to break it. Equally clear is it, that their Lord took into His hands, with remarkable gesture and deed, the cup, and taught the twelve also the blessing of the wine. Accordingly, after the Son of man went up, we read that the apostles took bread, and blessed, and gave it to the Church. Likewise also they took the cup.