| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: You would lure the holy angels from on high;
And not a man can hear you, but he throws the hammer down
And is off to see the countries ere he die.
But now no more I wander, now unchanging here I stay;
By my love, you find me safely sitting here:
And pipe you ne'er so sweetly, till you pipe the hills away,
You can never pipe my fancy from my dear.
TO MRS. MACMARLAND
IN Schnee der Alpen - so it runs
To those divine accords - and here
We dwell in Alpine snows and suns,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: succeeded with other natures than those of Etienne and Gabrielle; with
them failure was certain.
During his stay in Paris the duke had avenged the death of Maximilien
by killing his son's adversary, and he had planned for Etienne an
alliance with the heiress of a branch of the house of Grandlieu,--a
tall and disdainful beauty, who was flattered by the prospect of some
day bearing the title of Duchesse d'Herouville. The duke expected to
oblige his son to marry her. On learning from d'Artagnon that Etienne
was in love with the daughter of a miserable physician, he was only
the more determined to carry out the marriage. What could such a man
comprehend of love,--he who had let his own wife die beside him
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: And the little reeds were frightened and whist;
But always the eddies whimper and choke,
And the frogs would tell if they could, for they
croak:
"Deep, deep!
Death-deep!
Deep, deep!
Death-deep!"
And the dark tide slides and glisters and glides
Snakelike over the secret it hides.
THE SAILOR'S WIFE SPEAKS
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