| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott: The night-wind rocks the sleeping flowers,
And sings to them, soft and low.
The early birds erelong will wake:
'T is time for the Elves to go.
O'er the sleeping earth we silently pass,
Unseen by mortal eye,
And send sweet dreams, as we lightly float
Through the quiet moonlit sky;--
For the stars' soft eyes alone may see,
And the flowers alone may know,
The feasts we hold, the tales we tell:
Flower Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: unwitting words, she resolved to save him.
She had been a shy, shrinking creature, fearing to lift her eyes to a
paleface's, but now they were raised clear and steadfast.
As she stepped toward the captive and took his hand, her whole person radiated
with conscious pride in her power. It was the knowledge that she could save.
When she kissed his hand, and knelt before him, she expressed a tender
humility.
She had claimed questionable right of an Indian maiden; she asked what no
Indian dared refuse a chief's daughter; she took the paleface for her husband.
Her action was followed by an impressive silence. She remained kneeling.
Wingenund resumed his slow march to and fro. Silvertip retired to his corner
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: to arrive, would be sure to germinate and survive.
Dispersal during the Glacial period. -- The identity of many plants and
animals, on mountain-summits, separated from each other by hundreds of
miles of lowlands, where the Alpine species could not possibly exist, is
one of the most striking cases known of the same species living at distant
points, without the apparent possibility of their having migrated from one
to the other. It is indeed a remarkable fact to see so many of the same
plants living on the snowy regions of the Alps or Pyrenees, and in the
extreme northern parts of Europe; but it is far more remarkable, that the
plants on the White Mountains, in the United States of America, are all the
same with those of Labrador, and nearly all the same, as we hear from Asa
On the Origin of Species |
