| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: At the banquet sat Osseo;
All were merry, all were happy,
All were joyous but Osseo.
Neither food nor drink he tasted,
Neither did he speak nor listen;
But as one bewildered sat he,
Looking dreamily and sadly,
First at Oweenee, then upward
At the gleaming sky above them.
"Then a voice was heard, a whisper,
Coming from the starry distance,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: man has spent I have given to him--I, who found the money. Yes,
my lord, I have given it to him, and myself have spent not so
much as single mite."
All who were present shouted with laughter at Abdallah's speech,
for who would believe that any one would be so generous as to
spend all upon another and none upon himself?
So poor Abdallah was beaten with rods until he confessed where he
had hidden his money; then the Wise Judge handed fifty sequins to
Ali and kept twenty himself for his decision, and all went their
way praising his justice and judgment.
That is to say, all but poor Abdallah; he went to his home
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: Prestongrange, who had saved me, in this violent, illegal manner, out
of the midst of my dangers, temptations, and perplexities. But this
was both too flimsy and too cowardly to last me long, and the
remembrance of James began to succeed to the possession of my spirits.
The 21st, the day set for the trial, I passed in such misery of mind as
I can scarce recall to have endured, save perhaps upon Isle Earraid
only. Much of the time I lay on a brae-side betwixt sleep and waking,
my body motionless, my mind full of violent thoughts. Sometimes I
slept indeed; but the court-house of Inverary and the prisoner glancing
on all sides to find his missing witness, followed me in slumber; and I
would wake again with a start to darkness of spirit and distress of
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