| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: And at last is gone,
Leaving his empty cell for the pallor of dawn . . .
The mother whose child was buried to-day
Turns her face to the window; her face is grey;
And all her body is cold with the coldness of rain.
He would have grown as easily as a tree,
He would have spread a pleasure of shade above her,
He would have been his father again . . .
His growth was ended by a freezing invisible shadow.
She lies, and does not move, and is stabbed by the rain.
Wind, wind, wind; we toss and dream;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: away with him.'
'Where to?'
'To the prison that he has left. All is ready and there he will
find his comrades.'
Then a guard was summoned and I was dragged back to my own place,
de Garcia saying as I went that he would be with me presently.
CHAPTER XXIX
DE GARCIA SPEAKS HIS MIND
At first I was not taken into the chamber that I had left, but
placed in a little room opening out of it where the guard slept.
Here I waited a while, bound hand and foot and watched by two
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius: Herein wonder not
How 'tis that, while the seeds of things are all
Moving forever, the sum yet seems to stand
Supremely still, except in cases where
A thing shows motion of its frame as whole.
For far beneath the ken of senses lies
The nature of those ultimates of the world;
And so, since those themselves thou canst not see,
Their motion also must they veil from men-
For mark, indeed, how things we can see, oft
Yet hide their motions, when afar from us
Of The Nature of Things |
