| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: II.
O little Cloud the virgin said, I charge thee to tell me
Why thou complainest now when in one hour thou fade away:
Then we shall seek thee but not find: ah Thel is like to thee.
I pass away, yet I complain, and no one hears my voice.
The Cloud then shewd his golden head & his bright form emerg'd.
Hovering and glittering on the air before the face of Thel.
O virgin know'st thou not our steeds drink of the golden springs
Where Luvah doth renew his horses: lookst thou on my youth.
And fearest thou because I vanish and am seen no more.
Nothing remains; O maid I tell thee, when I pass away.
Poems of William Blake |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: grogram--"
"Hold! hold!" exclaimed the mercer; "nay, if there be, in truth
and sincerity, but the half of these wares--but if ever I trust
bumpkin with bonny Bayard again!"
"As you list for that, good Master Goldthred, and so good morrow
to you--and well parted," he added, riding on cheerfully with the
lady, while the discountenanced mercer rode back much slower than
he came, pondering what excuse he should make to the disappointed
bride, who stood waiting for her gallant groom in the midst of
the king's highway.
"Methought," said the lady, as they rode on, "yonder fool stared
Kenilworth |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: part of number, and number is a more extended notion than the odd. I
suppose that you follow me now?
EUTHYPHRO: Quite well.
SOCRATES: That was the sort of question which I meant to raise when I
asked whether the just is always the pious, or the pious always the just;
and whether there may not be justice where there is not piety; for justice
is the more extended notion of which piety is only a part. Do you dissent?
EUTHYPHRO: No, I think that you are quite right.
SOCRATES: Then, if piety is a part of justice, I suppose that we should
enquire what part? If you had pursued the enquiry in the previous cases;
for instance, if you had asked me what is an even number, and what part of
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