| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Change
Water Lilies
"Did You Never Know?"
The Treasure
The Storm
Songs For Myself
XII
The Tree
At Midnight
Song Making
Alone
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Richard III by William Shakespeare: KING EDWARD. Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love Lord
Marquis.
DORSET. This interchange of love, I here protest,
Upon my part shall be inviolable.
HASTINGS. And so swear I. [They embrace]
KING EDWARD. Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this
league
With thy embracements to my wife's allies,
And make me happy in your unity.
BUCKINGHAM. [To the QUEEN] Whenever Buckingham
doth turn his hate
Richard III |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: pursued Alan. "Hut, man! have done with your lees! I have Palliser's
letter here in my pouch. You're by with it, James More. You can never
show your face again with dacent folk."
James was taken all aback with it. He stood a second, motionless and
white, then swelled with the living anger.
"Do you talk to me, you bastard?" he roared out.
"Ye glee'd swine!" cried Alan, and hit him a sounding buffet on the
mouth, and the next wink of time their blades clashed together.
At the first sound of the bare steel I instinctively leaped back from
the collision. The next I saw, James parried a thrust so nearly that I
thought him killed; and it lowed up in my mind that this was the girl's
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