Opening Stanzas
(See Thesaurus Precum Latinarum)
- Jesu, dulcis memoria,
- dans vera cordis gaudia:
- sed super mel et omnia
- ejus dulcis praesentia.
- Nil canitur suavius,
- nil auditur jucundius,
- nil cogitatur dulcius,
- quam Jesus Dei Filius.
- Jesu, spes paenitentibus,
- quam pius es petentibus!
- quam bonus te quaerentibus!
- sed quid invenientibus?
- Nec lingua valet dicere,
- nec littera exprimere:
- expertus potest credere,
- quid sit Jesum diligere.
- Sis, Jesu, nostrum gaudium,
- qui es futurum praemium:
- sit nostra in te gloria,
- per cuncta semper saecula.
- Amen.
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