COMMUNION.
"Hail! sacred feast, which Jesus makes—
Rich banquet of his flesh and blood:
Thrice happy he who here partakes
That sacred stream, that heavenly food."
With a bearing meekly grateful, slow approach the sacred feast,
And, with penitential gladness, take, by faith, this Eucharist.
Hark! how sweetly, o'er it stealing, come the sounds of pardoning love!
Winning back to paths of virtue all who now in error rove.