Extract from A Prayer for My Daughter (William Butler Yeats)
November 28th 2006 09:46
And may her bridegroom bring her to a house
Where all's accustomed, ceremonious;
For arrogance and hatred are the wares
Peddled in the thoroughfares.
How but in custom and in ceremony
Are innocence and beauty born?
Ceremony's a name for the rich horn,
And custom for the spreading laurel tree.
-- "A prayer for my daughter" by William Butler Yeats
Possibly, you could extract:
-- that some sorts of knowledge are only able to be transmitted by ceremony;
-- that ceremonial knowledge is the only type compatible with innocence and beauty.
The image is from the Wikipedia article on Bay Laurel.
Where all's accustomed, ceremonious;
For arrogance and hatred are the wares
Peddled in the thoroughfares.
How but in custom and in ceremony
Are innocence and beauty born?
Ceremony's a name for the rich horn,
And custom for the spreading laurel tree.
-- "A prayer for my daughter" by William Butler Yeats
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Possibly, you could extract:
-- that some sorts of knowledge are only able to be transmitted by ceremony;
-- that ceremonial knowledge is the only type compatible with innocence and beauty.
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The image is from the Wikipedia article on Bay Laurel.
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