| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: That love and all the dreams of love are away beyond the mountains.
The songs that call for us to-night, they have called for men before us,
And the winds that blow the message, they have blown ten thousand years;
But this will end our wander-time, for we know the joy that waits us
In the strangeness of home-coming, and a faithful woman's eyes.
Come away! come away! there is nothing now to cheer us --
Nothing now to comfort us, but love's road home: --
Over there beyond the darkness there's a window gleams to greet us,
And a warm hearth waits for us within.
Come away! come away! -- or the roving-fiend will hold us,
And make us all to dwell with him to the end of human faring:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: quicker than wax before the hottest fire." The king, seeing this
foolish fellow swelling with empty pride, immediately grew merry
and joyful, hoping that the unbridled and boastful tongue would
get the mastery of that divinely instructed and philosophic soul.
"And what is the plan?" he asked. Then began Theudas to weave
his web. He made his villainy sharp as any razor and did
cunningly prepare his drugs. Now behold this malicious device
and suggestion of the evil one. "Remove, O king," said he, "all
thy son's waiting men and servants far from him, and order that
comely damsels, of exceeding beauty, and bedizened to be the more
winsome, be continually with him and minister to him, and be his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: But I must first render you all the little attentions in my power."
"The Amontillado!" ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered
from his astonishment.
"True," I replied; "the Amontillado."
As I said these words I busied myself among the pile of bones
of which I have before spoken. Throwing them aside, I soon un-
covered a quantity of building stone and mortar. With these
materials and with the aid of my trowel, I began vigorously to wall
up the entrance of the niche.
I had scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered
that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off.
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