| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: the gate, and waddle down to the little pond at the back of the yard; he
saw the school house that he had hated so much as a boy, and from which he
had so often run away to go a-fishing, or a-bird's-nesting. He saw the
prints on the school house wall on which the afternoon sun used to shine
when he was kept in; Jesus of Judea blessing the children, and one picture
just over the door where he hung with his arms stretched out and the blood
dropping from his feet. Then Peter Halket thought of the tower at the
ruins which he had climbed so often for birds' eggs; and he saw his mother
standing at her cottage gate when he came home in the evening, and he felt
her arms round his neck as she kissed him; but he felt her tears on his
cheek, because he had run away from school all day; and he seemed to be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: Shall shake the tottering Dagons down.
For I was objectless as they
And loitering idly day by day;
But whenever I heard the recruiters come,
I left my all to follow the drum.
THE VANQUISHED KNIGHT
I HAVE left all upon the shameful field,
Honour and Hope, my God, and all but life;
Spurless, with sword reversed and dinted shield,
Degraded and disgraced, I leave the strife.
From him that hath not, shall there not be taken
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: casket the Genie must and should go. So at last into the casket
the monster went, bellowing most lamentably.
The Emperor Abdallah shut the lid of the casket, and locked it
and sealed it with his seal. Then, hiding it under his cloak, he
bore it out into the garden and to a deep well, and, first making
sure that nobody was by to see, dropped casket and Genie and all
into the water.
Now had that wise man been by--the wise man who had laughed so
when the poor young fagot-maker wept and wailed at the
ingratitude of his friend--the wise man who had laughed still
louder when the young fagot-maker vowed that in another case he
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