| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough,
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now.
DESERT POOLS
I LOVE too much; I am a river
Surging with spring that seeks the sea,
I am too generous a giver,
Love will not stoop to drink of me.
His feet will turn to desert places
Shadowless, reft of rain and dew,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the south. As though guessing what must be passing through the
other's mind, the stranger vouchsafed an explanation.
"I came down from the north to do a little trading and hunting,"
he said, "and got way off the beaten track. My head man,
who was the only member of the safari who had ever before
been in the country, took sick and died. We could find no natives
to guide us, and so I simply swung back straight north. We have
been living on the fruits of our guns for over a month. Didn't have
an idea there was a white man within a thousand miles of us when
we camped last night by a water hole at the edge of the plain.
This morning I started out to hunt and saw the smoke from your
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: square with three tall windows, and joined by a pair of ample
folding-doors to the next room; elegant in proportion,
papered in sea-green, furnished in velvet of a delicate blue,
and adorned with a majestic mantelpiece of variously tinted
marbles. Such was the room that Somerset remembered; that
which he now beheld was changed in almost every feature: the
furniture covered with a figured chintz; the walls hung with
a rhubarb-coloured paper, and diversified by the curtained
recesses for no less than seven windows. It seemed to
himself that he must have entered, without observing the
transition, into the adjoining house. Presently from these
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