| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: But only a pinch of dust blew up in my face.
I almost gave my life long ago for a thing
That has gone to dust now, stinging my eyes --
It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.
The Long Hill
I must have passed the crest a while ago
And now I am going down --
Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know,
But the brambles were always catching the hem of my gown.
All the morning I thought how proud I should be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: them, all that Bangu left alive, for when their fathers were killed, the
women escaped with some of the children, especially those of the
outlying kraals. I have gathered them to be revenged upon Bangu, I who
am their chief by right of blood."
"Quite so," I answered. "I see that you have gathered them; but do they
wish to be revenged on Bangu at the risk of their own lives?"
"We do, white Inkoosi," came the deep-throated answer from the three
hundred.
"And do they acknowledge you, Saduko, to be their chief?"
"We do," again came the answer. Then a spokesman stepped forward, one
of the few grey-haired men among them, for most of these Amangwane were
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iron Puddler by James J. Davis: and go boating and swimming in the river and the clear lake.
When a boy gets old enough to leave the kindergarten and start
in the primary school he mixes agricultural studies with his
books. First he plants a small garden and tends it. Then he is
taught to raise chickens. Next he learns swine husbandry and then
dairying and the handling of horses. The girls learn poultry-
raising, butter-making, gardening, cooking, dressmaking and
millinery.
After the boy has had a general course in all the branches of
agriculture he is permitted to specialize in any one of them if
he wants to. He can make an exhaustive study of grain farming,
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