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[00:31.69]Your children are not your children.
[00:38.13]They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
[00:44.75]They come through you but not from you,
[00:51.55]tthought they with you,they belong to themselves.
[00:57.61]You may give them your love but not your thought
[01:05.22]For they have thoughts of their own.
[01:11.52]You may house their bodies not their soul
[01:18.48]For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
[01:18.79]Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
[01:48.17]You may strive to be like them,
[01:55.05]But seek not to make them like you,
[02:01.95]For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
[02:14.62]You are the bows from which your children
[02:22.11]As living arrows are sent forth.
[02:28.21]The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
[02:35.24]And He bends you with His might,
[02:41.49]That His arrows may go swift and far.
[03:18.07]Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness
[03:24.75]For even as He loves the arrow that flies
[03:28.12]So He loves also the bow that is stable
[03:31.03]Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness
[03:37.69]For even as He loves the arrow that flies
[03:40.98]So He loves also the bow that is stable