| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: My boyish dream involved and dazzled down
And mastered, while that after-beauty makes
Such head from act to act, from hour to hour,
Within me, that except you slay me here,
According to your bitter statute-book,
I cannot cease to follow you, as they say
The seal does music; who desire you more
Than growing boys their manhood; dying lips,
With many thousand matters left to do,
The breath of life; O more than poor men wealth,
Than sick men health--yours, yours, not mine--but half
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: "Well," I says, "I will bring them to you to-
morrow afternoon."
She says, "Thank you."
Finally I couldn't stand it no longer. I got
brave all of a sudden, and busted out: "Martha,
I--I--I--"
But I got to stuttering, and my braveness stut-
tered itself away. And I finishes up by saying:
"I like you a hull lot, Martha." Which wasn't
jest exactly what I had planned fur to say.
Martha, she says she kind of likes me, too.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: And sharp revenge protested for the same,
If aught but good his mistress fair betide;
Then wished he to return the way he came,
Although he wist not by what path to ride,
And time drew near when he again must fight
With proud Argantes, that vain-glorious knight.
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His stalwart steed the champion stout bestrode
And pricked fast to find the way he lost,
But through a valley as he musing rode,
He saw a man that seemed for haste a post,
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