Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Communion
They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
Quaff immortality and joy.
Milton.—Par. Lost, Book V. Line 637.
Thus may we abide in union,
With each other and the Lord,
And possess in sweet communion
Joys which earth cannot afford.
Rev. John Newton.—Benediction, Verse 2.