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- O Godhead hid, devoutly I adore Thee,
Who truly art within the forms before me;
To Thee my heart I bow with bended knee.
As failing quite in contemplating Thee.
- Sight touch, and taste in Thee are each deceived;
The ear alone most safely is believed:
I believe all the Son of God has spoken,
Than Truth’s own word there is truer token.
- God only on the Cross lay hid from view;
But here lies hid at once the Manhood too:
And I, in both professing my belief,
Make the same prayer as the repentant thief.
- Thy wounds as Thomas saw, I do not see;
Yet Thee confess my Lord and God to be:
Make me believe Thee ever more and more;
In Thee my hope, in Thee my love to store.
- O Thou Memorial of Our Lord’s own dying!
O Bread that living art and vivifying!
Make ever Thou my soul on Thee to live;
Ever a taste of Heavenly sweetness give.
- O loving Pelican! O Jesus, Lord!
Unclean I am, but cleanse me in Thy Blood:
Of which a single drop, for sinners spilt.
Is ransom for a world’s entire guilt.
- Jesus! whom for the present veil’d I see,
What I so thirst for, Oh, vouchsafe to me:
That I may see Thy countenance unfolding.
And may be blest Thy glory in beholding.