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618  See upon the new King’s table, The new Pasch, no more unstable,
 * Terminates the ancient Rite;

What was Old, the New effaces, Truth the shadowy Type replaces,
 * Day dispels the dark of Night.

At the Supper what Christ acted, What his loving law enacted,
 * Here is done by power Divine;

Here, in glad commemoration, Is the solemn consecration
 * Of the Host from bread and wine.

Here the Christian dogma stated— Bread is transubstantiated
 * Into Flesh, the wine to Blood

What not sight nor touch discerneth, What no human learning learneth,
 * Simple faith hath understood.

Underneath the forms external— Signs not things—sublime, supernal
 * Hidden secrets here we ﬁnd—

Bread to Flesh; to Blood, wine's sweetness; Christ in absolute completeness,
 * Is contained in either kind.

Undiminished by partaking, Undivided in the breaking,
 * In each portion Christ ﬁnds room—

Thousands eat of what one eateth, This one’s act the next repeateth,
 * Unconsuming, all consume.

