And this for your salvation is enough.”
But the preceding lines should throw light on the Catholic poet's meaning:
“Christians, be staid: walk wisely and serene:
Be grave, and shun the flippant speech of those
Who think that every wave will wash them clean—
That any field will serve them for repose.
Be not a feather to each wind that blows:
There is a Shepherd and a Fold for you:
Ye have a Leader when your way is rough.”
All this is unmistakable orthodoxy; and, therefore, the two lines quoted, which come next, speak of the evidence of the Old and the New Testament for the “one Fold and one Shepherd” and the infallible “Leader.”