Extraordinary Discourse 351

Is Everyone In?






we clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands
of those who come after us;

we enter the little circle of each other’s arms,

and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a
dance,

and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of
life, who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears
it except in fragments.
Wendell Berry