Unisonous

Again, what is a more precious practical truth than Unity, the "Communio Sanctorum?" and how can there be on earth a more perfect, typical expression of this, than the vast unisonous song of a multitude, who, with one mouth and one heart, glorify their God and their Redeemer--where the voices of all, young men and maidens, old men and children, are, as it were, the voice of one person.

Citing the line about heartbeats, she avers that the mother "generat[es] a mother-tongue that is more about closeness and rhythm, about wordless understanding and unisonous heart-beats, than about signification and difference....[O]nly the pulsation of the iambic pentameters remains, like the beating of the heart mentioned in the text" (pp.