PANGE LINGUA.

(In Vesperis.)

Pange, lingua, gloriosi
Corporis mysterium,
Sanguinisque pretiosi,
Quem in mundi pretium
Fructus ventris generosi
Rex effudit gentium.

Nobis datus, nobis natus
Ex intacta Virgine,

Et in mundo conversatus,
Sparso verbi semine,
Sui moras incolatus

Miro clausit ordine.

In supremae nocte coenae
Recumbens cum fratribus,
Observata lege plene

Cibis in legalibus,

Cibum turbae duodenae

Se dat suis manibus.

Verbum caro, panem verum

Verbo carnem efficit,

Fitque sanguis Christi merum,

Et si sensus deficit,

Ad firmandum cor sincerum

Sola fides sufficit.

SING, MY TONGUE, THE MYSTIC STORY.

(Vespers.)

Sing, my tongue, the mystic story

Of the Saviour's Flesh and Blood:
How our King, the Lord of glory,
Gave Himself to be our food,
And our drink, the ransom gory
Poured out on the Holy Rood.

Born for us and to us given

Of a Virgin pure as snows-
Wondrously our night is riven

By the seed of light He sows:
His indwelling with us, Heaven
Yet more wondrously doth close.

Christ, the last sad supper eating

Ere He break His mortal bands,
First the types and forms repeating

With the meats the Law commands,
To the Twelve, all types completing,
Gives Himself with His own hands.

Into Flesh the true bread turneth

By His word, the Word made Flesh; Wine to Blood; while sense discerneth Nought beyond the sense's mesh, Faith an awful mystery learneth,

And must teach the soul afresh.

TANTUM ERGO SACRAMENTUM

VENEREMUR CERNUI:

ET ANTIQUUM DOCUMENTUM

Novo CEDAT RITUI:

PRAESTET FIDES SUPPLEMENTUM

SENSUUM DEFECTUI.

GENITORI GENITOQUE

LAUS ET JUBILATIO,

SALUS, HONOR, VIRTUS QUOQUE

SIT ET BENEDICTIO:

PROCEDENTI AB UTROQUE

COMPAR SIT LAUDATIO.

TO THIS SACRAMENT MOST LOWLY

BOW THE HEAD AND BEND THE KNEE; AND DEPART, YE TYPES THAT SOLELY

SHADOWS WERE OF THINGS TO BE!

FAITH ALONE SHALL TEACH US WHOLLY WHAT THE SENSES FAIL TO SEE!

PRAISE AND JUBILEE EXCEEDING

TO THE FATHER AND THE SON!
LET HOSANNAHS UPWARD SPEEDING
THROUGH THE ENDLESS AGES RUN!
AND TO HIM FROM BOTH PROCEEDING,
EQUAL BE THE HONOR DONE!

SAORIS SOLEMNIIS.

(Ad Matutinum.)

Sacris solemniis juncta sint gaudia,
Et ex praecordiis sonent praeconia;
Recedant vetera, nova sint omnia,
Corda, voces, et opera.

Noctis recolitur coena novissima,
Qua Christus creditur agnum et azyma
Dedisse fratribus, juxta legitima
Priscis indulta patribus.

Post agnum typicum, expletis epulis, Corpus Dominicum datum discipulis, Sic totum omnibus, quod totum singulis, Ejus fatemur manibus.