"...Shadows flee that truth may stay,
Oldness to the new gives way,
And night's darkness to the light...
Words a nature's course derange,
That in Flesh the bread may change
And the wine in Christ's own Blood.
Does it pass thy comprehending?
Faith, the law of light transcending
Leaps to things not understood.
Here beneath these signs are hidden
Priceless things, to sense forbidden;
Signs, not things are all we see...
And whoev'r of Him partakes,
Severs not, nor rends, nor breaks:
All entire, their Lord receive..."
~from the Sequence of the Mass of Corpus Christi
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