[tri-wings] Re: looking for poem

Susan,

Is it this one?  If not, this one is close.  It's one of my favorites.


Children

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of
Children."=20

And he said:=20

Your children are not your children.=20

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.=20

They come through you but not from you,=20

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.=20

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.=20

For they have their own thoughts.=20

You may house their bodies but not their souls,=20

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit,
not even in your dreams.=20

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.=20

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.=20

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent
forth.=20

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.=20

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;=20

For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that
is stable.=20


Hugs,

Brenda - wife to Rich, mommy to Matthew Alexander(5), Grace Alexandra
(^i^ 8/31/03 full T-13) and Nicholas Andrew (2!)

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Subject: [tri-wings] looking for poem

Hi all I am looking for that poem that has the passage " I'll lend you a
child for a little while"  thanks in advance
=20

Susan mom to Rebecca t18m 06/06/91 - 05/02/06 and Mark age 14 1/2 ADD/LD



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