| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: and then went on serenely to the next hallelujah.
For a moment I was petrified with astonishment.
Was this my indulgent father, my playmate, adorer, and friend?
Smarting with pain, for I was a round baby, with a nicely stretched,
tight skin, and dreadfully hurt in my feelings, I opened my mouth
to shriek in earnest, when my father's clear whisper fell on my ear,
each word distinct and not to be misunderstood, his eyes as before
gazing meditatively into space, and his lips hardly moving,
"Elizabeth, wenn <91> du schreist, kneife ich dich bis du platzt."
And he finished the verse with unruffled decorum--
"Will Satan mich verschlingen,
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: Even as a chariot from a difficult ravine, bountiful Vasus,
rescue us
from all distress.
3 May the most glorious Fathers aid us, and the two Goddesses,
Mothers
of the Gods, who strengthen Law.
Even as a chariot from a difficult ravine, bountiful Vasus,
rescue us
from all distress.
4 To mighty Narasamsa, strengthening his might, to Pusan, ruler
over
The Rig Veda |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: "We shall see that, Simon, we shall see that!" said the engineer,
to whom the announcement of a good breakfast could not be indifferent,
after his long walk.
"Are you hungry, Mr. Starr?"
"Ravenously hungry. My journey has given me an appetite.
I came through horrible weather."
"Ah, it is raining up there," responded Simon Ford.
"Yes, Simon, and the waters of the Forth are as rough as the sea."
"Well, Mr. Starr, here it never rains. But I needn't describe
to you all the advantages, which you know as well as myself.
Here we are at the cottage. That is the chief thing, and I
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