| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: Love looked back as he took his flight?
Only I know while day grew night,
Turning still to the vanished years,
Love looked back as he took his flight,
And lo, his eyes were filled with tears.
II
(Written in a copy of "La Vita Nuova". For M. C. S.)
If you were Lady Beatrice
And I the Florentine,
I'd never waste my time like this --
If you were Lady Beatrice
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: it was born and bred, it courts destruction. Owing to its speed it is
not often overtaken by the hounds by fair hunting.[48] When caught, it
is the victim of a misfortune alien to its physical nature.
[46] {meta touton}, sc. "with these other causes"; al. "with the
dogs"; i.e. "like a second nightmare pack."
[47] Reading {orthion}, or if {orthon}, transl. "straight on."
[48] {kata podas}, i.e. "by running down"; cf. "Mem." II. vi. 9;
"Cyrop." I. vi. 40, re two kinds of hound: the one for scent, the
other for speed.
The fact is, there is no other animal of equal size which is at all
its match in speed. Witness the conformation of its body: the light,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Paz by Honore de Balzac: myself at play, or get inveigled by some woman, and Paz and I might
then be parted; and though I had every intention of always looking out
for him, I knew I might sometime or other forget to provide for him.
In short, my dear angel, I wanted to spare him the pain and
mortification of having to ask me for money, or of having to hunt me
up if he got into distress. SO, one morning, after breakfast, when we
were sitting with our feet on the andirons smoking pipes, I produced,
--with the utmost precaution, for I saw him look at me uneasily,--a
certificate of the Funds payable to bearer for a certain sum of money
a year."
Clementine jumped up and went and seated herself on Adam's knee, put
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