At the Gates of Dawn
There is a chapter in The Wind in the Willows unlike anything else in the book.
Rat and Mole set out along the river at night in search of a lost child. They hear music. Dawn approaches. And on a small island they encounter something so beautiful, terrible, peaceful, and mysterious that ordinary words seem inadequate.
Kenneth Grahame called the chapter “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.”
Years ago, on his Children’s Hour radio program at WSND at Notre Dame, Fr. Robert Griffin, C.S.C., had another wonderful name for what happens there: “the animals’ God Experience.”
In this episode of The Common…
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