Dignare me, o Iesu! rogo te

Dignare me, O Jesu! rogo te,
In cordis vulnere abscondere,
Permitte me hic vivere,
In tuo latere quiescere.

Si praeparet daemon insidias,
Et mundus offerat divitias,
In tuo corde tutus sum,
In tuo latere securus sum.

Fallacior si caro lubricis
Mentem exagitet blanditiis,
Nil metuo hic tutus sum,
Est meum latus hoc refugium.

Si oculos claudat fatalis sors,
Et vitam terminet feralis mors,
O Iesu! ne dimitte me,
Da tuo moriar in latere.

Jesu, grant me this, I pray,
Ever in thy heart to stay;
Let me evermore abide
Hidden in thy wounded side.

If the evil one prepare,
Or the world, a tempting snare,
I am safe when I abide
In thy heart and wounded side.

If the flesh, more dangerous still,
Tempt my soul to deeds of ill,
Naught I fear when I abide
In thy heart and wounded side.

Death will come one day to me;
Jesu, cast me not from thee:
Dying let me still abide
In thy heart and wounded side.

—Sir Henry Williams Baker (1861) from an anonymous Latin original (1753)