| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Gentle in form, and fair of face,
Tell me, thou ancient mariner,
That sailest on the sea,
If ship, or sail or evening star
Be half so fair as she!
Tell me, thou gallant cavalier,
Whose shining arms I see,
If steel, or sword, or battle-field
Be half so fair as she!
Tell me, thou swain, that gnard'st thy flock
Beneath the shadowy tree,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: Kent dropped into his chair and glanced askance at the mail piled
in neat array on his desk; he was not in a frame of mind to handle
routine office business. Other clients would have to wait until
later in the day. A memorandum pad, bearing a message in Sylvester's
precise penmanship attracted his wandering attention and he picked
it up.
"Mr. Kent:" he read. "Colonel McIntyre called just after I talked
with you on the 'phone; he waited in your office for half an hour,
then left, stating he would come back. Miss Barbara McIntyre called
immediately afterwards, but would not wait more than five minutes.
Mr. Clymer came as she was going out and left a note on your desk.
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: "Oh!" said the girl, contemptuously.
"See here, little one; you are laying up a crop of evils for yourself
by loving those who persecute us. Why don't you keep to our side?"
"Why don't you come to church; and why do you steal things night and
day?" asked the child.
"So you let those people talk you over!" sneered Catherine. "They love
us, don't they?--just as they love their food which they get out of
us, and they want new dishes every day. Did you ever know one of them
to marry a peasant-girl? Not they! Does Sarcus the rich let his son
marry that handsome Gatienne Giboulard? Not he, though she is the
daughter of a rich upholsterer. You have never been at the Tivoli ball
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