| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: Revolution; and there a third that had thrown his weight
alternately into the scale of Whig and Tory.
While lord Woodville was cramming these words into his guest's
ear, "against the stomach of his sense," they gained the middle
of the gallery, when he beheld General Browne suddenly start, and
assume an attitude of the utmost surprise, not unmixed with fear,
as his eyes were suddenly caught and riveted by a portrait of an
old lady in a sacque, the fashionable dress of the end of the
seventeenth century.
"There she is!" he exclaimed--"there she is, in form and
features, though Inferior in demoniac expression to the accursed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: Your castle has a hundred quiet halls,
A hundred chambers, where the shadows lie
On things put by, forgotten long ago.
Forgotten lutes with strings that Time has slackened,
We two shall draw them close and bid them sing --
Forgotten games, forgotten books still open
Where you had laid them by at vesper-time,
And your embroidery, whereon half-worked
Weeps Amor wounded by a rose's thorn.
Shall I not see the room in which you slept,
Palpitant still and breathing of your thoughts,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: videbat, neque sibi homines feros ac barbaros temperaturos existimabat
quin, cum omnem Galliam occupavissent, ut ante Cimbri Teutonique
fecissent, in provinciam exirent atque inde in Italiam contenderent [,
praesertim cum Sequanos a provincia nostra Rhodanus divideret]; quibus
rebus quam maturrime occurrendum putabat. Ipse autem Ariovistus tantos
sibi spiritus, tantam arrogantiam sumpserat, ut ferendus non videretur.
Quam ob rem placuit ei ut ad Ariovistum legatos mitteret, qui ab eo
postularent uti aliquem locum medium utrisque conloquio deligeret: velle
sese de re publica et summis utriusque rebus cum eo agere. Ei legationi
Ariovistus respondit: si quid ipsi a Caesare opus esset, sese ad eum
venturum fuisse; si quid ille se velit, illum ad se venire oportere.
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