Secured against grim doubt, that spiritual vulture,
believers' fellowship in chapel culture
continue in the joyous proclamation
of that which Saint Jude called, Common Salvation;
our souls' chief comfort and chief exultation.
Starward
Author's Notes/Comments:
Gwenallt, whose mundane name was David James Jones (May 18th, 1899-December 24th, 1968) was a Christian Poet of Wales, and also a formidable scholar and college professor. I feel somewhat close to him because, on the night of his passing, I was suffering the worst part of the worst influenza infection I had ever experienced to that date; and probably among the worst three viral infections I have ever sustained. Although I was, then, only ten and a half years old, I had the feeling that there was a significance to that night (and the Apollo astronauts, circling the moon, had read from the nativity according to the Evangelist Saint Luke), not knowing that across the ocean, in Wales, Gwenallt was being summoned to Heaven.
