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A GENERAL COMMUNION by ALICE MEYNELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: I SAW THE THRONG, SO DEEPLY SEPARATE
Last Line: FOR EACH, THE WHOLE OF THE DEVOTED SUN.
Subject(s): EUCHARIST; COMMUNION;

ISAW the throng, so deeply separate,
Fed at one only board --
The devout people, moved, intent, elate,
And the devoted Lord.

O struck apart! not side from human side,
But soul from human soul,
As each asunder absorbed the multiplied,
The ever unparted, whole.

I saw this people as a field of flowers,
Each grown at such a price
The sum of unimaginable powers
Did no more than suffice.

A thousand single central daisies they,
A thousand of the one;
For each, the entire monopoly of day;
For each, the whole of the devoted sun.



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