| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: A cracked voice broke upon my pityings:
"Lo, I am Age; I bid thee follow me!"
Ah, Youth! we dallied by the babbling wells
Where April all her lyric secret tells;--
Ah, Song! we sped our bold imaginings
As far as yon red planet's triple rings;--
O Life! O Love! I followed, followed thee!
There waits one word to end my journeyings:
"Lo, I am Death; I bid thee follow me!"
DREAMS AND DUST
SELVES
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring
Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government,
and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once
an example and fit instrument for introducing the same
absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws,
and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves
invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection
United States Declaration of Independence |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: gaol belonging to the German firm. To Dr. Stuebel it seemed simple
enough: the offenders were to be effectually punished, the
sufferers partially indemnified. To the Samoans, the thing
appeared no less simple, but quite different: "Malietoa was selling
Samoans to Misi Ueba." What else could be expected? Here was a
private corporation engaged in making money; to it was delegated,
upon a question of profit and loss, one of the functions of the
Samoan crown; and those who make anomalies must look for comments.
Public feeling ran unanimous and high. Prisoners who escaped from
the private gaol were not recaptured or not returned and Malietoa
hastened to build a new prison of his own, whither he conveyed, or
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