Questão 46 - Prova Modelo A - AFA 2025

TEXT III

      On Children – Kalil Gibran 

      And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, 
      Speak to us of Children. 
05  And he said: 
      Your children are not your children. 
      They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. 
      They come through you but not from you, 
      And though they are with you and yet they belong not to 
10  you. 
      You may give them your love but not your thoughts. 
      For they have their own thoughts. 
      You may house their bodies but not their souls, 
      For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you 
15  cannot visit, not even in your dreams. 
      You may strive to be like them, but seek not make them like 
      you. 
      For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. 
      You are the bows from which your children as living arrows 
20  are sent forth. 
      The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and 
      He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift 
      and far. 
      Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; 
25  For even He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the 
      bow that is stable. 

From The Prophet (Knopf, 1923). This poem is in Public Domain.
Avalible on http:poets.org/poem/children-1. Accessed on June 10th, 2024. 

It is possible to understand that kids