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,