VI
INTROIBO AD ALTARE DEI
It is good to enter the Path which takes the Seeker to the
Altar, for Heaven comes down to the soul which cannot
ascend thereto.
The Cause Pleaded
We have confess'd Thee since our days began,
Thy law discern'd in all creation's plan,
And yet unprofitable servants still
Remain, so distant from Thy holy hill,
Conscious of nothing like the dreadful want
And void within us—full of rumours dark—
Waiting Thy manifested covenant,
The refuge of Thine Altar and Thine Ark.
The youth of the soul is the King's Presence, and the
joy which cometh thereof is morning's joy and the Mass-time.
