| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: Like Ursula upon an altar-screen.
Come, leave the light and sit beside my bed,
For I have had enough of saints and prayers.
Strange broken thoughts are beating in my brain,
They come and vanish and again they come.
It is the fever driving out my soul,
And Death stands waiting by the arras there.
Ornella, I will speak, for soon my lips
Shall keep a silence till the end of time.
You have a mouth for loving -- listen then:
Keep tryst with Love before Death comes to tryst;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: susceptible. Though I am bound to say he never gave away any large
sums of money to anybody. He is far too high-principled for that!
LADY WINDERMERE. [Interrupting.] Duchess, Duchess, it's
impossible! [Rising and crossing stage to C.] We are only married
two years. Our child is but six months old. [Sits in chair R. of
L. table.]
DUCHESS OF BERWICK. Ah, the dear pretty baby! How is the little
darling? Is it a boy or a girl? I hope a girl - Ah, no, I
remember it's a boy! I'm so sorry. Boys are so wicked. My boy is
excessively immoral. You wouldn't believe at what hours he comes
home. And he's only left Oxford a few months - I really don't know
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: though not necessarily by just men. The public executioner was
seldom a very estimable personage, at least under the old Regime;
and those who have been the scourges of God have been, in general,
mere scourges, and nothing better; smiting blindly, rashly,
confusedly; confounding too often the innocent with the guilty, till
they have seemed only to punish crime by crime, and replace old sins
by new. But, however insoluble, however saddening that puzzle be, I
must believe--as long as I believe in any God at all--that such men
as Robespierre were His instruments, even in their crimes.
In the case of the French Revolution, indeed, the wickedness of
certain of its leaders was part of the retribution itself. For the
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