Religion
O Food for pilgrims pining!
Translated by John Brownlie (1896) · From Hymns of the Early Church (1896)
O Food for pilgrims pining!
O Bread for angels shining!
O Manna fresh from heaven!
In bountiful completeness,
O may Thy heavenly sweetness
To hungering hearts be given.
O Font of love surprising,
From Jesu's heart uprising!
A pure refreshing flow;
Nought else our thirst allayeth—
For this the pilgrim prayeth—
This draught of love bestow.
Thy face we come revering,
O Jesus, now appearing
In sacramental rite.
O when in heaven, before it
Unveiled, may we adore it,
Our faith absorbed in sight.
Codex Note
Latin: O Esca viatorum. Brownlie: ascribed by some to Thomas Aquinas, but believed to be by an unknown seventeenth-century German Jesuit. Author unknown.
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Anonymous Latin Hymns. “O Food for pilgrims pining!” Translated by John Brownlie. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-latin-hymns/37/.
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Anonymous Latin Hymns. “O Food for pilgrims pining!” Translated by John Brownlie. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-latin-hymns/37/.
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