O Godhead hid, devoutly I adore thee,\nWho truly are within the forms before me;\nTo thee my heart I bow with bended knee,\nAs failing quite in contemplating thee.\n2. Sight, touch and taste in thee are each deceived;\nThe ear alone most safely is believed:\nI believe all the Son of God has spoken,\nThan truth’s own word there is no truer token.\n3. God only on the cross lay hid form view;\nBut here lies hid at once the Manhood too:\nAnd I, in both professing my belief,\nMake the same prayer as the repentant thief.\n4. Their wounds, as Thomas saw, I did not see;\nYet thee confess my Lord and God to be:\nMake me believe thee ever more and more;\nIn thee my hope, in thee my love to store.\n5. O thou memorial of our Lord’s own dying!\nO bread that living heart and vivifying!\nMake ever thou my soul on thee to live;\nEver taste of heavenly sweetness give.\n6. O loving Pelican! O Jesus, Lord!\nUnclean I am, but cleanse me in thy blood;\nOf which a single drop, for sinners spilt;\nIs ransom for a whole world’s entire guilt.\n7. Jesu! Whom for the present veil’d I see,\nWhat I so thirst for, O, vouchsafe to me:\nThat I may see thy countenance unfolding,\nAnd may be blessed thy glory in beholding.