GODHEAD HERE IN HIDING: St.Basil #089

GODHEAD HERE IN HIDING

1	Godhead here in hiding / Whom I do adore Masked by these bare shadows, / shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at Thy service / low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder / at the God Thou art.
2	Seeing, touching, tasting / are in Thee deceived; How says trusty hearing? / that shall be believed; What God's Son has told me, / take for truth I do; Truth Himself speaks truly / or there's nothing true.
3	On the cross Thy Godhead / made no sign to men; Here Thy very manhood / steals from human ken: Both are my confession, / both are my belief, And I pray the prayer / of the dying thief.
4	I am not like Thomas, / wounds I cannot see, But I plainly call Thee / Lord and God as he: This faith each day deeper / be my holding of, Daily make me harder / hope and dearer love.
5	O Thou, our reminder / of the Crucified, Living Bread, the life of / us for whom He died, Lend this life to me, then; / feed and feast my mind, There be Thou the sweetness / man was meant to find.
6	Like what tender tales tell / of the Pelican, Bathe me, Jesus Lord, in / what Thy bosom ran Blood that but one drop of / has the pow'r to win All the world forgiveness / of its world of sin.
7	Jesus, Whom I look at / shrouded here below, I beseech Thee, send me / what I thirst for so, Some day to gaze on Thee / face to face in light And be blest forever / with Thy glory's sight.