LATIN

1. Adóro te devóte, latens Déitas,
   Quae sub his figúris vere látitas;
   Tibi se cor meum totum súbiicit,
   Quia te contémplans totum déficit.

2. Visus, tactus, gustus in te fállitur,
   Sed audítu solo tuto créditur.
   Credo quidquid dixit Dei Fílius;
   Nil hoc verbo veritátis vérius.

3. In cruce latébat sola Déitas,
   At hic latet simul et Humánitas,
   Ambo tamen credens atque cónfitens,
   Peto quod petívit latro paénitens.

4. Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intúeor:
   Deum tamen meum te confíteor.
   Fac me tibi semper magis crédere,
   In te spem habére, te dilígere.

5. O memoriále mortis Dómini!
   Panis vivus, vitam praestans hómini!
   Praesta meae menti de te vívere,
   Et te illi semper dulce sápere.

6. Pie Pellicáne, Iesu Dómine,
   Me immúndum munda tuo sánguine:
   Cuius una stilla salvum fácere
   Totum mundum quit ab omni scélere.

7. Iesu, quem velatum nunc aspício,
   Oro, fiat illud quod tam sítio:
   Ut te reveláta cernens fácie,
   Visu sim beátus tuae glóriae. Amen.

PHONETIC

1. ah-DAWH-rawh TEH deh-VAWH-te, LAH-tehns DEH-ee-tahs,
   KWEH soob ees fee-GOO-rees VEH-reh LAH-tee-tahs;
   TEE-bee seh kawhr MEH-oom TAWH-toom SOOB-yee-cheet,
   KWEE-ah teh kawhn-TEHM-plahns TAWH-toom DEH-fee-cheet.

2. VEE-soos, TAH-ktoos, GOO-stoos een teh FAH-lee-toor,
   SEHD ahoo-DEE-too SAWH-lawh TOO-tawh KREH-dee-toor.
   KREH-dawh KWEED-kweed DEE-kseet DEH-ee FEE-lee-oos;
   NEEL awhk VEHR-bawh veh-ree-TAH-tees VEH-ree-oos.

3. een KROO-cheh lah-TEH-baht SAWH-lah DEH-ee-tahs,
   aht eek LAH-teht SEE-mool eht oo-MAH-nee-tahs,
   AHM-bawh TAH-mehn KREH-dehns AHT-kweh KAWHN-fee-tehns,
   PEH-tawh kwawhd peh-TEE-veet LAH-trawh PEH-nee-tehns.

4. PLAH-gahs, SEE-koot TAWH-mahs, nawhn een-TOO-eh-awhr:
   DEH-oom TAH-mehn MEH-oom teh kawhn-FEE-teh-awhr.
   FAHK meh TEE-bee SEHM-pehr MAH-jees KREH-deh-reh,
   een teh SPEHM ah-BEH-reh, teh dee-LEE-jeh-reh.

5. awh meh-MAWH-ree-AH-leh MAWHR-tees DAWH-mee-nee!
   PAH-nees VEE-voos, VEE-tahm PREH-stahns AWH-mee-nee!
   PREH-stah MEH-eh MEHN-tee deh teh VEE-veh-reh,
   eht teh EEL-lee SEHM-pehr DOOL-cheh SAH-peh-reh.

6. PEE-eh pehl-lee-KAH-neh, YEH-soo DAWH-mee-neh,
   meh eem-MOON-doom MOON-dah TOO-awh SAHNG-gwee-neh:
   KOO-yoos oo-nah STEEL-lah SAHL-voom FAH-cheh-reh
   TAWH-toom MOON-doom KWEET ahb AWH-mnee SHEH-leh-reh.

7. YEH-soo, kwehm veh-LAH-toom noonk ah-SPEE-chee-awh,
   AWH-rawh, FEE-aht EEL-lood kwawhd tahm SEE-tsee-awh:
   oot teh reh-veh-LAH-tah CHEHR-nehns FAH-chee-eh,
   VEE-soo SEEM beh-AH-toos TOO-eh GLAWH-ree-eh. AH-mehn.

TRANSLATION

1. Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore,
   Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more,
   See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart
   Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.

2. Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived:
   How says trusty hearing? that shall be believed;
   What God’s Son has told me, take for truth I do;
   Truth himself speaks truly or there’s nothing true.

3. On the cross thy godhead made no sign to men,
   Here thy very manhood steals from human ken:
   Both are my confession, both are my belief,
   And I pray the prayer of the dying thief.

4. I am not like Thomas, wounds I cannot see,
   But can plainly call thee Lord and God as he;
   Let me to a deeper faith daily nearer move,
   Daily make me harder hope and dearer love.

5. O thou our reminder of Christ crucified,
   Living Bread, the life of us for whom he died,
   Lend this life to me then: feed and feast my mind,
   There be thou the sweetness man was meant to find.

6. Bring the tender tale true of the Pelican;
   Bathe me, Jesu Lord, in what thy bosom ran—
   Blood whereof a single drop has power to win
   All the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

7. Jesu, whom I look at shrouded here below,
   I beseech thee send me what I thirst for so,
   Some day to gaze on thee face to face in light
   And be blest for ever with thy glory’s sight. Amen.

(Translation: Gerard Manley Hopkins)