| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: Scent of pine trees in the rain,
Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
Twilight
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: Louvois."
Being in such a temper, people generally will run rather
than walk; which was the reason why the inhabitants of the
Hague were hurrying so fast towards the Buytenhof.
Honest Tyckelaer, with a heart full of spite and malice, and
with no particular plan settled in his mind, was one of the
foremost, being paraded about by the Orange party like a
hero of probity, national honour, and Christian charity.
This daring miscreant detailed, with all the embellishments
and flourishes suggested by his base mind and his ruffianly
imagination, the attempts which he pretended Cornelius de
The Black Tulip |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: the morning, she had been content to return to her father's
castle in the evening, thus preserving underanged the balance
of her duties, habits, and affections; not without a hope that
the repeal of her lover's outlawry might be eventually obtained,
by a judicious distribution of some of his forest spoils among
the holy fathers and saints that-were-to-be,--pious proficients
in the ecclesiastic art equestrian, who rode the conscience
of King Henry with double-curb bridles, and kept it well in hand
when it showed mettle and seemed inclined to rear and plunge.
But the affair at Gamwell feast threw many additional
difficulties in the way of the accomplishment of this hope;
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