The earliest to survive is "A Cradle Song", to Coleridge's words, from about 1894. The songs include many that have entered the repertory, such as "Linden Lea" (1902), "Silent Noon" (1904) and the song cycles "Songs of Travel" (1905 and 1907) and "On Wenlock Edge". To Vaughan Williams the human voice was "the oldest and greatest of musical instruments". He described his early songs as "more or less simple and popular in character", and the musicologist Sophie Fuller describes this simplicity and popularity as consistent throughout his career. Many composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries wrote sentimental works for female voice; by contrast, songs by Vaughan Williams, such as "The Vagabond" from "Songs of Travel", to words by Robert Louis Stevenson, are "a particularly masculine breath of fresh air" (Fuller), "virile open-air verses" (Kennedy). Some of Vaughan Williams's later songs are less well known; Fuller singles out the cycle "Three Poems by Walt Whitman", a largely dark work, as too often overlooked by singers and critics. For some of his songs the composer expands the accompaniment to include two or more string instruments in addition to the piano; they include "On Wenlock Edge", and the Chaucer cycle "Merciless Beauty" (1921), judged by an anonymous contemporary critic as "surely among the best of modern English songs". Despite his agnosticism Vaughan Williams composed many works for church performance. His two best known hymn tunes, both from c. 1905, are "Down Ampney" to the words "Come Down, O Love Divine", and ""Sine nomine"" "For All the Saints". "Grove" lists a dozen more, composed between 1905 and 1935. Other church works include a "Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis" (1925), the Mass (1920–1921), a Te Deum (1928) and the motets "O Clap Your Hands" (1920), "Lord, Thou hast been our Refuge" (1921) and "O Taste and See" (1953, first performed at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II). Vaughan Williams's choral works for concert performance include settings of both secular and religious words. The former include "Toward the Unknown Region" to words by Whitman (composed 1904–1906), "Five Tudor Portraits", words by John Skelton (1935), and the Shakespearean "Serenade to Music" (in its alternative version for chorus and orchestra, 1938).