Question:“On a gift for graduation or entrance”
On a gift for graduation or entrance
To the one leaving through the door and the one entering it, give the same thing. Something long-lasting, an adult’s object, and a short word.
Three descend. Engrave a name on it. That name holds them steady at the next door.
- A watchIt fastens to the wrist the words: from now on, time is yours.
- A bagThe first vessel for what they will carry to the next door.
- A bouquetIt lives one day, but in that day’s photograph it lives forever.
At eighteen the youth of Athens received a shield and a spear and became a citizen.