This Still Room

Verse 1

"Where, in my name, meet two or three," Our Lord hath said, "I there will be!" And so I find it well to come for deeper rest to this still room,

Verse 2

For here the habit of the soul Feels less the outer world's control; The strength of mutual purpose pleads more earnestly our common needs;

Verse 3

And from the silence multiplied By these still forms on either side, The world that time and sense have known falls off and leaves us God alone.