| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: Of all the gods will take no gifts from men.
I am afraid, afraid.
Sappho, lean down.
Last night the fever gave a dream to me,
It takes my life and gives a little dream.
I thought I saw him stand, the man I love,
Here in my quiet chamber, with his eyes
Fixed on me as I entered, while he drew
Silently toward me -- he who night by night
Goes by my door without a thought of me --
Neared me and put his hand behind my head,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: having been absent a month and a day. It was but a little time,
and yet long enough for fresh sorrows to have fallen on that most
unhappy town. For now the Almighty had added to the burdens which
were laid upon her. She had tasted of death by the sword of the
white man, now death was with her in another shape. For the
Spaniard had brought the foul sicknesses of Europe with him, and
small-pox raged throughout the land. Day by day thousands perished
of it, for these ignorant people treated the plague by pouring cold
water upon the bodies of those smitten, driving the fever inwards
to the vitals, so that within two days the most of them died.* It
was pitiful to see them maddened with suffering, as they wandered
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: who do believe; but they deceive only themselves and they do not
perceive. In their hearts is a sickness, and God has made them still
more sick, and for them is grievous woe because they lied. And when it
is said to them, 'Do not evil in the earth,' they say, 'We do but what
is right.' Are not they the evildoers? and yet they do not perceive.
And when it is said to them, 'Believe as other men believe,' they say,
'Shall we believe as fools believe?' Are not they themselves the
fools? and yet they do not know. And when they meet those who believe,
they say, 'We do believe;' but when they go aside with their devils,
they say, 'We are with you; we were but mocking!' God shall mock at
them and let them go on in their rebellion, blindly wandering on.
The Koran |
