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- O bread of heaven, beneath this veil
Thou dost my very God conceal’
My Jesus, dearest treasure, hail
I love thee and adoring kneel:
Each loving soul by thee is fed
With thy own self in form of bread.
- O food of life, thou who dost give
The pledge of immortality;
I live; no ’tis not I that live.
God gives me life, God lives in me.
He feeds my soul, he guides my ways,
And every grief with joy repays.
- O bond of love, that dost unite
The servant to his loving Lord;
Could I dare live, and not requite
Such love – Then death were meet reward
I cannot live unless to prove
Some love for such unmeasured love.
- Beloved Lord in heaven above,
There, Jesus, thou awaitest me;
To gaze on thee with changeless love;
Yes, thus, I hope thus shall it be,
For how can he deny me heaven
Who here on earth himself hath given?