Adoro Te Devote

¹O Godhead hid, devoutly I adore Thee,

²Who truly art within the forms before me;

³To Thee my heart I bow with bended knee,

⁴As failing quite in contemplating Thee.

⁵Sight, touch, and taste in Thee are each deceived;

⁶The ear alone most safely is believed:

⁷I believe all the Son of God has spoken,

⁸Than Truth's own word there is no truer token.

⁹God only on the Cross lay hid from view;

¹⁰But here lies hid at once the Manhood too:

¹¹And I, in both professing my belief,

¹²Make the same prayer as the repentant thief.

¹³Thy wounds, as Thomas saw, I do not see;

¹⁴Yet Thee confess my Lord and God to be:

¹⁵Make me believe Thee ever more and more;

¹⁶In Thee my hope, in Thee my love to store.

¹⁷O thou Memorial of our Lord's own dying!

¹⁸O Bread that living art and vivifying!

¹⁹Make ever Thou my soul on Thee to live;

²⁰Ever a taste of heavenly sweetness give.

²¹O loving Pelican! O Jesu, Lord!

²²Unclean I am, but cleanse me in Thy Blood;

²³Of which a single drop, for sinners spilt,

²⁴Is ransom for a world's entire guilt.

²⁵Jesu! whom for the present veil'd I see,

²⁶What I so thirst for, O vouchsafe to me:

²⁷That I may see Thy countenance unfolding,

²⁸And may be blest Thy glory in beholding.