O Saving Victim, Open Wide

O saving Victim, open wide
The gate of Heaven to man below;
Our foes press on from every side;
Your aid supply; Your strength bestow.

To your great Name be endless praise;
Immortal Godhead, One in Three;
Grant us, for endless length of days,
In our true native land to be.

Author: St. Thomas Aquinas

Year: 1264

This is an English translation of the final two stanzas of the Latin hymn 'Verbum supernum prodiens' written by Thomas Aquinas for the Office of the Feast of Corpus Christi. The most common English version is by Edward Caswall (1849), but the original author of the lyrics is Aquinas.