I saw behind me those who had gone,
And before me, those who are to come.
I looked back and saw my father,
And his father, and all our fathers,
And in front, to see my son, and his son,
And the sons beyond. their eyes were my eyes.
As I felt, so they had felt, and were to feel, As then, so now, as to-morrow and forever.
Then I was not afraid, for I was in a long line
That had no beginning, and no end,
And the hand of his father grasped my
Father's hand, and his hand was in mine,
And my son grasped mine, and my grandson his.
And all, up and down the line that stretched --
From Time That Was, to Time That Is, and,
Is Not Yet, raised their hands to show the link.
And we found that we were one, born of Woman, on of Man, had in the Image, fashioned in the
Womb by the Will of God. I was of them, they,
Were of me, and in me, and I in all of them."
