I have covered this Eucharistic hymn already with a modernised text as provided in CWB II. To make those changes rhyme, quite a lot of other changes needed to made and there are other alternative lines in CWB II that vary a lot from this version.
The New Living Parish Hymnal has the more archiac words and John de Luca’s arrangement of MISNEACH.
It was in Percy Jones’s Pius X hymnal as well:
Let’s see what changed:
His arrangement didn’t help me much as I think this backing is worse than my last effort:
- “Come to me, all ye who labour, come, and I will give you rest”:
Such, dear Lord, thine invitation to each soul to be your guest;
and we answer with deep longing, while our sinfulness we see,
Jesus, Lord, I am not worthy, yet in mercy come to me.
- Here, upon this altar lowly is the food you make your home,
While we hail thee Lord and Master, reigning from thy heavenly throne;
Life without thee would be lonely, so our hearts still cry to thee:
Jesus, Lord, I am not worthy, yet in mercy come to me.
- All is joy when thou art near us; earth can never bliss impart
Like the peace and heavenly sweetness of thy visit to each heart;
All unfelt are grief and sorrow, as with trust we cry to thee,
“Jesus, Lord, I am not worthy, yet in mercy come to me.”