| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: As one shuts an open door,
That Love may starve therein
And trouble me no more."
But over the roofs there came
The wet new wind of May,
And a tune blew up from the curb
Where the street-pianos play.
My room was white with the sun
And Love cried out in me,
"I am strong, I will break your heart
Unless you set me free."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: And as their aching bones they rest,
Their anxious captain scans the west.
So paused Alaric on the Alps
And ciphered up the Roman scalps.
Poem: V - THE FOOLHARDY GEOGRAPHER
The howling desert miles around,
The tinkling brook the only sound -
Wearied with all his toils and feats,
The traveller dines on potted meats;
On potted meats and princely wines,
Not wisely but too well he dines.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: of moral and religious education is directed; not only that
of words and doctors, but the sharp ferule of calamity under
which we are all God's scholars till we die. If, as
teachers, we are to say anything to the purpose, we must say
what will remind the pupil of his soul; we must speak that
soul's dialect; we must talk of life and conduct as his soul
would have him think of them. If, from some conformity
between us and the pupil, or perhaps among all men, we do in
truth speak in such a dialect and express such views, beyond
question we shall touch in him a spring; beyond question he
will recognise the dialect as one that he himself has spoken
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