| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: down as never man had before.
"Help!" bawled Babo. "Help! Murder!"
Such a hubbub had not been heard in that town for many a day.
Back came Simon Agricola running, and there he saw, and took it
all in in one look.
"Stop, friend," said he to the smith, "let the simpleton go; this
is not past mending yet."
"Very well," said the smith; "but he must give me back my golden
angel, and you must cure my mother, or else I'll have you both up
before the judge."
"It shall be done," said Simon Agricola; so Babo paid back the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: Those who misbelieve and turn folk from God's way, He will make
their works go wrong. But those who believe and do right and believe
in what is revealed to Mohammed,-and it is the truth from their
Lord,-He will cover for them their offences and set right their mind.
That is because those who misbelieve follow falsehood, and those who
believe follow the truth from their Lord. Thus does God set forth
for men their parables.
And when ye meet those who misbelieve-then striking off heads
until ye have massacred them, and bind fast the bonds!
Then either a free grant (of liberty) or a ransom until the war
shall have laid down its burdens. That!-but if God please He would
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung's Ring by George Bernard Shaw: Wagner still produced no music independently of his poems. The
overture to The Mastersingers is delightful when you know what it
is all about; but only those to whom it came as a concert piece
without any such clue, and who judged its reckless counterpoint
by the standard of Bach and of Mozart's Magic Flute overture, can
realize how atrocious it used to sound to musicians of the old
school. When I first heard it, with the clear march of the
polyphony in Bach's B mmor Mass fresh in my memory, I confess I
thought that the parts had got dislocated, and that some of the
band were half a bar behind the others. Perhaps they were; but
now that I am familiar with the work, and with Wagner's harmony,
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