| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Young Forester by Zane Grey: forest land. Then as we descended into the big canyon we turned a curve and
saw, far ahead to the left, a black, smoky, hideous slope. We kept to the
right side of the brook and sheered off just as we reached a point
opposite, where the burned line began. Fire had run up that side till
checked by bare weathered slopes and cliffs. As far down the brook as eye
could see through the smoky haze there stretched that black line of
charred, spear-pointed pines, some glowing, some blazing, all smoking.
From time to time, as we climbed up the slope, I looked back. The higher I
got the more hideous became the outlook over the burned district. I was
glad when Herky led the way into the deep shade of level forest, shutting
out the view. It would take a hundred years to reforest those acres denuded
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: Why comes not Tancred, whose great hardiment,
With you is prized so dear? Pardie he lies
Still on his pillow, and presumes the night
Again may shield him from my power and might.
LXXIV
"Why then some other come, by hand and hand,
Come all, come forth on horseback, come on foot,
If not one man dares combat hand to hand,
In all the thousands of so great a rout:
See where the tomb of Mary's Son doth stand,
March thither, warriors hold, what makes you doubt?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Astoria by Washington Irving: ship. His stay at the Sandwich Islands was prolonged far beyond
expectation. He looked in vain for the annual ship in the spring.
Month after month passed by, and still she did not make her
appearance. He, too, proved the danger of departing from orders.
Had he returned from St. Paul's to Astoria, all the anxiety and
despondency about his fate, and about the whole course of the
undertaking, would have been obviated. The Beaver would have
received the furs collected at the factory and taken them to
Canton, and great gains, instead of great losses, would have been
the result. The greatest blunder, however, was that committed by
Captain Sowle.
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