Careful Words

communion (n.)

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet

Quaff immortality and joy.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 637.

To him who in the love of Nature holds

Communion with her visible forms, she speaks

A various language.

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): Thanatopsis.

When one that holds communion with the skies

Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise,

And once more mingles with us meaner things,

'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Charity. Line 435.