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Sight and intellect transcending,
Nature's laws to marvel bending,
'Tis confirmed by faith divine.
Under either kind remaining,
Form, not substance, still retaining,
Wondrous things our spirit sees.
Flesh and blood thy palate staining,
Yet still Christ intire remaining,
Under either species.
All untorn for eating given,
Undivided, and unriven,
Whole He's taken and unrent;
Be there one or crowds surrounding,
He is equally abounding,
Nor, tho' eaten, ever spent.
Both to good and bad 'tis broken.
But on each a difieient token
Or of life or death attends.
Life to good, to bad damnation:
Lo! of one same manducation
How dissimilar the ends.
When the Priest the victim breaketh,
See thy faith in nowise shaketh,
Know that every fragment taketh
All that 'neath the whole there lies.
