O Lead My Blindness by the Hand

O lead my blind­ness by the hand

Lead me to Thy fa­mil­iar feast

Not here or now to un­der­stand

Yet ev­en here and now to taste

How the eter­nal Word of Heav’n

On earth in brok­en bread is giv’n.

We

who this ho­ly pre­cinct round

In one ad­or­ing cir­cle kneel

May we in one in­tent be bound

And one se­rene de­vo­tion feel;

And grow around Thy sac­red shrine

Like ten­drils of the death­less Vine.

We

who with one blest food are fed

Into one bo­dy may we grow

And one pure life from Thee

the Head

Informing all the mem­bers flow;

One pulse be felt in eve­ry vein

One law of plea­sure and of pain.