Questão 47 - 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.

Check the sentence that best explains the passage: 
“You may house their bodies but not their souls, 
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you 
cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”  ($\mathcal{l}$. 13-15)