| On Children | ni'o srana loi panzi
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| And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." | .i pa ninmu poi jgari pa cifnu re'o lo cutne be vo'a cu cusku lu e'o ga'i nai ko tavla mi'a loi panzi li'u
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| And he said: | .i je ko'a cusku lu
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| Your children are not your children. | ju'a lo panzi be do na du lo panzi be do
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| They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. | .i je py bersa jo'u tixnu lo ka le kamji'e cu djica tu'a ri
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| They come through you but not from you, | .i py co'a zasti se pi'o do ra'i nai do
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| And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. | .i je py kansa do .i to'e se ni'i bo py na'e se ponse do
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| You may give them your love but not your thoughts. | .i e'a do fi py dunda fe lo ka do prami e nai lo selpensi be do
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| For they have their own thoughts. | .i ki'u bo py krasi lo selpensi be vo'a
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| You may house their bodies but not their souls, | .i e'a do sabgau fi le zdani be lo xadni be py ku e nai lo ruxse'i be py
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| For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. | .i ki'u bo pe'a lo ruxse'i be py cu xabju le bavlamdei zdani poi do na ka'e vitke ta'i da ba'e ta'i lo nu senva
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| You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. | .i e'a do troci lo nu binxo lo simsa be py .i je ku'i e'a nai ko na troci lo nu gasnu lo nu py simsa do
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| For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. | .i ki'u bo pe'a le kamji'e na mo'i ti'a klama gi'e na stali le prulamdei
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| You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. |
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| 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. |
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| Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; |
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| For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. | |