| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: We praise thee, Varuna, with cymbal and pipe.
Women's Voices
Queen of the gourd-flower, queen of the harvest,
Sweet and omnipotent mother, O Earth!
Thine is the plentiful bosom that feeds us,
Thine is the womb where our riches have birth.
We bring thee our love and our garlands for tribute,
With gifts of thy opulent giving we come;
O source of our manifold gladness, we hail thee,
We praise thee, O Prithvi, with cymbal and drum.
All Voices
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: was just close enough for Candy to catch the sweet, delicious
feminine perfume that came indefinitely from her clothes, her
hair, her neck. From where Condy sat he could see the silhouette
of her head and shoulders against the dull golden blur of the open
window; her round, high forehead, with the thick yellow hair
rolling back from her temples and ears, her pink, clean cheeks,
her little dark-brown, scintillating eyes, and her firm red mouth,
made all the firmer by the position of her chin upon her hand. As
ever, her round, strong neck was swathed high and tight in white
satin; but between the topmost fold of the satin and the rose of
one small ear-lobe was a little triangle of white skin, that was
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: O appetite, from judgement stand aloof!
The one a palate hath that needs will taste,
Though reason weep, and cry It is thy last.
'For further I could say, This man's untrue,
And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;
Heard where his plants in others' orchards grew,
Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;
Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;
Thought characters and words, merely but art,
And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.
'And long upon these terms I held my city,
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