from "The Meeting"

And so, I find it well to come
For deeper rest to this still room,
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:
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.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier