O Godhead hid, devoutly I adore thee, Who truly are within the forms before me; To thee my heart I bow with bended knee, As failing quite in contemplating thee.
2. 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 no truer token.
3. God only on the cross lay hid form 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.
4. Their wounds, as Thomas saw, I did 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.
5. O thou memorial of our Lord’s own dying! O bread that living heart and vivifying! Make ever thou my soul on thee to live; Ever taste of heavenly sweetness give.
6. 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 whole world’s entire guilt.
7. Jesu! Whom for the present veil’d I see, What I so thirst for, O, vouchsafe to me: That I may see thy countenance unfolding, And may be blessed thy glory in beholding.
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