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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: forgotten her, and lived far away. And she used to go up to
the mountain above Troezene, to the temple of Poseidon and
sit there all day looking out across the bay, over Methana,
to the purple peaks of AEgina and the Attic shore beyond.
And when Theseus was full fifteen years old she took him up
with her to the temple, and into the thickets of the grove
which grew in the temple-yard. And she led him to a tall
plane-tree, beneath whose shade grew arbutus, and lentisk,
and purple heather-bushes. And there she sighed, and said,
'Theseus, my son, go into that thicket and you will find at
the plane-tree foot a great flat stone; lift it, and bring me
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