You, I Devoutly Praise

Prayed as a private prayer (The popular hymn, “Adoro Te Devote,” adapted from the prayer, is included among the Hymns found below.) (during the elevation of the Host (According to the Marietti edition.)) when Aquinas attended his second Mass as a non-celebrant (See Robert Wielockx, “La preghiera eucaristica di s. Tommaso: analisi testuale e testimonianza storica,” Atti del convegno: l’anima eucaristica di san Tommaso d’Aquino, in Frontiere: Rivista di folosifia e teologia 7 (2011), 333–34.)

You, I devoutly praise, (Murray’s translation has been slightly altered here to better correspond to the critical edition of the Latin.) hidden Truth, you
who under these forms, are truly hidden.

• My whole heart submits itself to you for,
  in contemplating you, I am at a complete loss.
• Sight, touch, taste, in you are deceived;
  hearing alone can be completely believed.
• I believe all the Son of God has said; nothing
  can be more true than the Word of truth.
• Upon the cross the Godhead alone was
  hidden, but here the humanity is also hidden.
• Truly believing and confessing both,
  I beg what the penitent thief begged.
• I do not see wounds, as Thomas did,
  but I confess you as my God.
• Make me believe ever more in you,
  having hope in you, and loving you.
• O memorial of the death of the Lord,
  living bread that gives life to man,
• Allow me always to live for you, and allow
  me to taste your sweetness always.
• O kind Pelican, Lord Jesus, cleanse me,
  who am unclean, in your Blood,
• one drop of which would be enough to save
  the whole world of all its defilement.
• Jesus, whom I now gaze at veiled, when
  shall that which I so desire come to pass?
• So that seeing you, your face revealed, I may
  be blessed with the vision of your glory.