| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Memorial to some transient mood
Of idle love and gala-night.
Its manner is the merest sleight
O' hand; yet therein dwells its might,
For if the heavier touch intrude
Your rondeau's stale.
Fragrant and fragile, fleet and bright,
And wing'd with whim, it gleams in flight
Like April blossoms wind-pursued
Down aisles of tangled underwood;--
Nor be too serious when you write
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: fortress.
[17] Thyreum (or Thyrium), in Acarnania, a chief city at the time of
the Roman wars in Greece; and according to Polybius (xxxviii. 5),
a meeting-place of the League on one occasion. See "Dict. Anct.
Geog." s.v.; Freeman, op. cit. iv. 148; cf. Paus. IV. xxvi. 3, in
reference to the Messenians and Naupactus; Grote, "H. G." x. 212.
B.C. 372. Having attached to his squadron the navy also of Corcyra,
with a fleet numbering now about ninety ships he set sail, in the
first instance to Cephallenia, where he exacted money--which was in
some cases voluntarily paid, in others forcibly extorted. In the next
place he began making preparations partly to harass the territory of
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: errors, in breaking parks, or the other follies you speak of."
"Why, truly, madam," replied Sussex, "as I said before, I wish
the gamesome mad fellow no injury. Some of his whoreson poetry
(I crave your Grace's pardon for such a phrase) has rung in mine
ears as if the lines sounded to boot and saddle. But then it is
all froth and folly--no substance or seriousness in it, as your
Grace has already well touched. What are half a dozen knaves,
with rusty foils and tattered targets, making but a mere mockery
of a stout fight, to compare to the royal game of bear-baiting,
which hath been graced by your Highness's countenance, and that
of your royal predecessors, in this your princely kingdom, famous
Kenilworth |
