| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 264. In Portugal, 1912 |
| By Alice Meynell (b. 1847) |
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| AND will they cast the altars down, | |
| Scatter the chalice, crush the bread? | |
| In field, in village, and in town | |
| He hides an unregarded head; | |
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| Waits in the corn-lands far and near, | 5 |
| Bright in His sun, dark in His frost, | |
| Sweet in the vine, ripe in the ear— | |
| Lonely unconsecrated Host. | |
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| In ambush at the merry board | |
| The Victim lurks unsacrificed; | 10 |
| The mill conceals the harvest’s Lord, | |
| The wine-press holds the unbidden Christ. | |
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