| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Fisherman's Luck by Henry van Dyke: and the charred ends of the sticks are left.
Even the little friendship-fire must keep the law of the bush. All
lights out when their purpose is fulfilled!
VI
ALTARS OF REMEMBRANCE
It is a question that we have often debated, in the informal
meetings of our Petrine Club: Which is pleasanter,--to fish an old
stream, or a new one?
The younger members are all for the "fresh woods and pastures new."
They speak of the delight of turning off from the high-road into
some faintly-marked trail; following it blindly through the forest,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: persons use in addressing maniacs.
"Through the air," said Rob.
His father groaned.
"Where's your balloon?" inquired sister Mabel, sarcastically.
"I don't need a balloon," returned the boy. "That's a clumsy way of
traveling, at best. I shall go by electric propulsion."
"Good gracious!" cried Mr. Joslyn, and the mother murmured: "My poor
boy! my poor boy!"
"As you are my nearest relatives," continued Rob, not noticing these
exclamations, "I will allow you to come into the back yard and see me
start. You will then understand something of my electrical powers."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Fruit, blossom, viand, amber wine, and gold.
Then she, 'Let some one sing to us: lightlier move
The minutes fledged with music:' and a maid,
Of those beside her, smote her harp, and sang.
'Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
'Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail,
That brings our friends up from the underworld,
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