| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Under a star.
RIVERS TO THE SEA
Mary sat in the corner weeping,
Bitter and hot her tears--
Little faith were the angels keeping
All the years.
THE CARPENTER'S SON
THE summer dawn came over-soon,
The earth was like hot iron at noon
In Nazareth;
There fell no rain to ease the heat,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lesser Hippias by Plato: seems to have more merit than the Greater, and to be more Platonic in
spirit. The character of Hippias is the same in both dialogues, but his
vanity and boasting are even more exaggerated in the Greater Hippias. His
art of memory is specially mentioned in both. He is an inferior type of
the same species as Hippodamus of Miletus (Arist. Pol.). Some passages in
which the Lesser Hippias may be advantageously compared with the
undoubtedly genuine dialogues of Plato are the following:--Less. Hipp.:
compare Republic (Socrates' cunning in argument): compare Laches
(Socrates' feeling about arguments): compare Republic (Socrates not
unthankful): compare Republic (Socrates dishonest in argument).
The Lesser Hippias, though inferior to the other dialogues, may be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: stones, dangerously steep, and from twenty to thirty feet in
height. A rusty iron chute on wooden legs came flying, like
a monstrous gargoyle, across the parapet. It was down this
that they poured the precious ore; and below here the carts
stood to wait their lading, and carry it mill-ward down the
mountain.
The whole canyon was so entirely blocked, as if by some rude
guerilla fortification, that we could only mount by lengths
of wooden ladder, fixed in the hillside. These led us round
the farther corner of the dump; and when they were at an end,
we still persevered over loose rubble and wading deep in
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