Pie Pellicane!

Pie Pellicane, Jesu domine
Me immundum munda tuo sanguine
Cuius una stilla salvum facere
Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere

My heart falls before you
contemplating yours

Sight and taste and touch
deceive me:
Truth herself speaks truly
or there's nothing true.

I do not see, as Thomas did,
the scars
but I confess his same love
in what I sense but cannot see.

Life giving breath,
that saves from death,
let me hide in your mystery
to live only in love.

Good Pelican,
feed my soul with your blood
hidden until now.

Unveil thy face
and give me my desire,
your knowledge perfectly
and cushioning grace.

[A brief paraphrase of the poem by St Thomas Aquinas, Adoro te devote, written in 1264)