Jesu Dulcis Memoria

Jesus to cast one thought upon

Makes gladness after He is gone,

But more than honey and honeycomb

Is to come near and take Him home.

[No music so can touch the ear,

No news is heard of such sweet cheer],

Thought half so dear there is not one

As Jesus God the Father's Son.

Jesu, their hope who go astray,

So kind to those who ask the way,

So good to those who look for Thee,

To those who find what must Thou be?

Jesu, a springing well Thou art,

Daylight to head and treat to heart,

And matched with Thee there's nothing glad

That men have wished for or have had.

To speak of that no tongue will do

Nor letters suit to spell it true:

But they can guess who have tasted of

What Jesus is and what is love.

Wish us Good morning when we wake

And light us, Lord, with Thy day-break.

Beat from our brains the thicky night

And fill the world up with delight.

Who taste of Thee will hunger more,

Who drink be thirsty as before:

What else to ask they never know

But Jesus' self, they love Him so.

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And a sweet singing in the ear

And in the mouth a honey zest

And drinks of heaven in the breast.

Thou art the hope, Jesu my sweet,

The soul has in its sighing-fit;

The loving tears on Thee are spent,

The inner cry for Thee is meant.

Be our delight, O Jesu, now

As by and by our prize art Thou,

And grant our glorying may be

World without end alone in Thee.