| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Roam'd a shepherdess and sang;
Young and beauteous, free from care,
Through the fields her clear notes rang:
So, Ia, Ia! le ralla, &c.
Of his lambs some two or three
Thyrsis offer'd for a kiss;
First she eyed him roguishly,
Then for answer sang but this:
So, Ia, Ia! le ralla, &c.
Ribbons did the next one offer,
And the third, his heart so true
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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: For the Anniversary of John Keats' Death
(February 23, 1821)
At midnight when the moonlit cypress trees
Have woven round his grave a magic shade,
Still weeping the unfinished hymn he made,
There moves fresh Maia like a morning breeze
Blown over jonquil beds when warm rains cease.
And stooping where her poet's head is laid,
Selene weeps while all the tides are stayed
And swaying seas are darkened into peace.
But they who wake the meadows and the tides
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: size scanty in numbers. Formica flava has larger and smaller workers, with
some of intermediate size; and, in this species, as Mr. F. Smith has
observed, the larger workers have simple eyes (ocelli), which though small
can be plainly distinguished, whereas the smaller workers have their ocelli
rudimentary. Having carefully dissected several specimens of these
workers, I can affirm that the eyes are far more rudimentary in the smaller
workers than can be accounted for merely by their proportionally lesser
size; and I fully believe, though I dare not assert so positively, that the
workers of intermediate size have their ocelli in an exactly intermediate
condition. So that we here have two bodies of sterile workers in the same
nest, differing not only in size, but in their organs of vision, yet
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