Sheet music

Original

Draw nigh, and take the body of the Lord. Arthur Sullivan. A cappella or keyboard. Sacred , Hymn Meter. 10 10. Language. English. SATB.

Translation

Draw nigh, and take the body of the Lord. Arthur Sullivan. A cappella or keyboard. Sacred , Hymn Meter. 10 10. Language. English. SATB.

Original

This hymn first appeared as a setting of Neale's translation in Church Hymns , 1874. The words are a translation of Sanc­ti ve­ni­te, cor­pus Christi su­mite , from the An­ti­phon­ar­i­um Ben­cho­ren­se , a late 7th Cen­tu­ry man­u­script from the Mon­as­te­ry of Ban­gor, Coun­ty Down, Ire­land. The translation appears in John M. Neale, Med­iæ­val Hymns , 1851.

Translation

This hymn first appeared as a setting of Neale's translation in Church Hymns , 1874. The words are a translation of Sanc­ti ve­ni­te, cor­pus Christi su­mite , from the An­ti­phon­ar­i­um Ben­cho­ren­se , a late 7th Cen­tu­ry man­u­script from the Mon­as­te­ry of Ban­gor, Coun­ty Down, Ire­land. The translation appears in John M. Neale, Med­iæ­val Hymns , 1851.