| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Or by the breake of day disguis'd from hence,
Soiourne in Mantua, Ile find out your man,
And he shall signifie from time to time,
Euery good hap to you, that chaunces heere:
Giue me thy hand, 'tis late, farewell, goodnight
Rom. But that a ioy past ioy, calls out on me,
It were a griefe, so briefe to part with thee:
Farewell.
Exeunt.
Enter old Capulet, his Wife and Paris.
Cap. Things haue falne out sir so vnluckily,
Romeo and Juliet |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: resplendent,
White as the orb of the sun, or white as the moon's disk of
silver.
Ever and anon went a maid round the hoard, and filled up the
drink-horns,
Ever she cast down her eyes and blushed; in the shield her
reflection
Blushed, too, even as she; this gladdened the drinking champions.
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A SLEDGE-RIDE ON THE ICE
King Ring with his queen to the banquet did fare,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: XLVIII.
And yet the fact remains that, had the wind failed and the fleet
lost steerage way, or, worse still, had it been taken aback from
the eastward, with its leaders within short range of the enemy's
guns, nothing, it seems, could have saved the headmost ships from
capture or destruction. No skill of a great sea officer would have
availed in such a contingency. Lord Nelson was more than that, and
his genius would have remained undiminished by defeat. But
obviously tactics, which are so much at the mercy of irremediable
accident, must seem to a modern seaman a poor matter of study. The
Commander-in-Chief in the great fleet action that will take its
The Mirror of the Sea |
