And from the silence multiplied
By these still forms on every side,
The world that time and sense has known
Falls off and leaves us God alone.
For the Flower room, Canon Langbridge’s delightful book, Restful Thoughts for Dusty Ways, supplied me with a verse:—
HEAVEN COVERS ALL.
When the world’s weight is on thy mind,
And all its black-winged fears affright,
Think how the daisy draws her blind,
And sleeps without a light.