THY NAME IS MUSIC TO THE HEART

 

O Jesus, Thou the beauty art, Of Angel worlds above!

Thy Name is music to the heart, Enchanting it with love!

Celestial sweetness unalloyed! 

Who eat Thee hunger still, Who drink Thee still feel a void which naught but Thou can fill!

O my sweet Jesus! hear the sighs which unto Thee I send! 

To Thee my inmost spirit cries, My being's hope and end!

Stay with us, Lord, and with Thy light illume the soul's abyss; 

Scatter the darkness of our night and fill the world with bliss. 

O Jesu! Spotless Virgin flower!

Our life and joy! To Thee 

be praise, beatitude and power through all eternity! 

Amen. 

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Iesu decus angelicum from the Roman Breviary, tr. E. Caswall