Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

You are singing Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee and idly check the notes in the footer.  Translated in the 1800s from a medieval text by St. Bernard of Clairvaux.  The weight of years comes crashing down you, hundreds of years between you and the translation, hundreds more years to the monk in his cell, and a thousand years from him to Christ, like you are looking down the wrong end of the telescope.