| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: But a dull shield, a crown of withered bays!
Yet who beneath this night of wars and fears,
From tranquil tower can watch the coming years;
Who can foretell what joys the day shall bring,
Or why before the dawn the linnets sing?
Thou, even thou, mayst wake, as wakes the rose
To crimson splendour from its grave of snows;
As the rich corn-fields rise to red and gold
From these brown lands, now stiff with Winter's cold;
As from the storm-rack comes a perfect star!
O much-loved city! I have wandered far
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: beings greatly, and some only slightly modified,--some developed in great
force, some existing in scanty numbers--in the different great geographical
provinces of the world.
On these same principles, we can understand, as I have endeavoured to show,
why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants, but of these a great
number should be endemic or peculiar; and why, in relation to the means of
migration, one group of beings, even within the same class, should have all
its species endemic, and another group should have all its species common
to other quarters of the world. We can see why whole groups of organisms,
as batrachians and terrestrial mammals, should be absent from oceanic
islands, whilst the most isolated islands possess their own peculiar
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cromwell by William Shakespeare: HALES.
My Lords, if words could show the ample welcome,
That my free heart affords you, I could then
Become a prater, but I now must deal
Like a feast Politician with your Lordships;
Defer your welcome till the banket end,
That it may then salve our defect of fair:
Yet Welcome now and all that tend on you.
WOLSEY.
Thanks to the kind master of the Rules.
Come and sit down; sit down, sir Thomas More.
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