| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: not feel that he had triumphed. He dreaded, possibly, lest the
storm should only have blown over for a time. He fell, possibly,
into hasty disgust at the folly of mankind, and despair of arousing
them to use their common sense, and acknowledge their true interest
and their true benefactors. At all events, he threw into the fire--
so it is said--all his unpublished manuscripts, the records of long
years of observation, and renounced science thenceforth.
We hear of him after this at Brussels, and at Basle likewise--in
which latter city, in the company of physicians, naturalists, and
Grecians, he must have breathed awhile a freer air. But he seems to
have returned thence to his old master Charles V., and to have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: And the passers-by are few.
I sit and think of it all,
And the blue June twilight dies, --
Down in the clanging square
A street-piano cries
And stars come out in the skies.
"It Is Not a Word"
It is not a word spoken,
Few words are said;
Nor even a look of the eyes
Nor a bend of the head,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: Lord; and, verily, I am to you a faithful adviser. What! do ye then
wonder that there comes to you a reminder from your Lord by a man from
amongst yourselves, to warn you? remember when He made you vicegerents
after Noah's people and increased you in length of stature;
remember, then, the benefits of God,- haply ye may prosper!' They
said, 'Hast thou come to us that we may worship God alone, and leave
what our fathers used to worship? then bring us what thou dost
threaten us with, if thou art of those who tell the truth!' He said,
'There shall fall upon you from your Lord horror and wrath; do ye
wrangle with me about names, which ye and your fathers have named
yourselves, for which God sent down no power; wait then expectant, and
The Koran |
