| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: And for that riches where is my deserving?
The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,
AND SO MY PATENT BACK AGAIN IS SWERVING.
Thyself thou gayest, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me, to whom thou gavest it, else mistaking;
So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,
Comes home again, on better judgement making.
Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,
In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.
But him whom he could not hold by love, he would not hold by force.
Willie Hughes became a member of Lord Pembroke's company, and,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: The most dreadful things are happening!' Rushing about--long
arms going like a windmill. 'They must be kept apart!' Starts
out for an absolute obliteration of everything absolute
separations. One side of the road for men, and the other for
women, and a hoarding--without posters between them. Every boy
and girl to be sewed up in a sack and sealed, just the head and
hands and feet out until twenty-one. Music abolished, calico
garments for the lower animals! Sparrows to be
suppressed--ab-so-lutely."
I laughed abruptly.
"Well, that's Mr. Grundy in one mood--and it puts Mrs.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.
Here the anthem doth commence:
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.
So they lov'd, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.
Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
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