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Latin
Adoro te devote, latens Deitas,
Quae sub his figuris vere latitas.
Tibi se cor meum totum subiicit,
Quia te contémplans totum deficit.
Visus, tactus, gustus in te fallitur,
Sed auditu solo tuto créditur.
Credo quidquid dixit Dei Filius,
Nil hoc verbo Veritatis vérius.
In cruce latébat sola Déitas,
At hic latet simul et humanitas.
Ambo tamen crédens atque confitens;
Peto quod petivit latro paénitens.
Plagas sicut Thomas, non intueor;
Deum tamen meum te confiteor.
Fac me tibi semper magis crédere,
In te spem habére, te diligere.
O memoriale mortis Domini!
Panis vivus vitam praéstans homini!
Praesta meae menti de te vivere
Et te illi semper dulce sapere.
Pie pellicane, Iesu Domine,
Me immundum munda tuo sanguine,
Cuius una stilla salvum facere
Totum mundum quit ab omni scélere.
lesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio,
Oro fiat illud quod tam sitio:
Ut te revelata cérnens facie,
Visu sim beatus tuae gloriae. Amen.
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English II
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 no truer token.
God only on the cross lay hid from view,
But here lies 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 living bread, to mortals life supplying!
Make thou my soul henceforth 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,
Can purge the entire world from all its guilt.
Jesus, whom for the present veiled I see,
What I so thirst for, do vouchsafe to me:
That I may see thy countenance unfolding,
And may be blest thy glory in beholding. Amen.