Unless thou helpest, hold Comfortress;
A world of doubt and darkness to evade;
An ocean all unknown to Christian kind;
Another world by nature’s self arrayed,
O’er the wide waste of waves, I seek to find.
A GENERAL COMMUNION
By Alice Meynell
I saw the throng, so deeply separate,
Fed at one only board—
The devout people, moved, intent, elate,