| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: A minute's law for the harried thing--then follow
him, follow him fast,
With the bellow of dogs and the beat of hoofs
and the mellow bugle's blast.
. . . . . .
Hillo! Halloo! they have marked a man! there is
sport in the world to-day--
And a clamor swells from the heart of the wood that
tells of a soul at bay!
A DREAM CHILD
WHERE tides of tossed wistaria bloom
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Message by Honore de Balzac: guest just now, when, no doubt, she had been scheming to enjoy
full solitude for her love. This mute eloquence I understood in
her eyes, and all the pity and compassion in me made answer in a
sad smile. I thought of her, as I had seen her for one moment, in
the pride of her beauty; standing in the sunny afternoon in the
narrow alley with the flowers on either hand; and as that fair
wonderful picture rose before my eyes, I could not repress a
sigh.
"Alas, madame, I have just made a very arduous journey----,
undertaken solely on your account."
"Sir!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: was to be encouraged to put in fortune and help. Ships
and those who went in them were to obey the said Don
Cristoval Colon or Columbus as though he were the Queen
and the King, the Bishop of Seville and the Marquis of
Cadiz! It didn't say it just that way but that was what it
meant. We were to follow him and do as he told us, or it
would be much the worse for us! We weren't to put in at
St. George la Mina on the coast of Africa, nor touch at the
King of Portugal's islands, and that was the whole of it!''
``All seamen were to be given good pay,'' said Sancho.
``And if anybody going was in debt, or even if he had done
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