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Sep 11
3m 42s

Wendell Berry’s “Sabbath Poem III, 1994”

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Today’s poem is, quite simply, one of my favorites. Berry uses Shakespeare to tell us we cannot see our life clearly until we have passed through death. Happy reading.



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