| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: neither of them for this poor Jacques. If he thought to eke out his
meagre way of life by some petty theft of wood for the fire, or for a
new roof-tree, he found himself face to face with a whole department,
from the Grand Master of the Woods and Waters, who was a high-born
lord, down to the common sergeant, who was a peasant like himself,
and wore stripes or a bandoleer by way of uniform. For the first
offence, by the Salic law, there was a fine of fifteen sols; and
should a man be taken more than once in fault, or circumstances
aggravate the colour of his guilt, he might be whipped, branded, or
hanged. There was a hangman over at Melun, and, I doubt not, a fine
tall gibbet hard by the town gate, where Jacques might see his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: a burden:-for them to bear for aye, and evil for them on the
resurrection day will it be to bear.
On the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and we will gather the
sinners in that day blue-eyed.
They shall whisper to each other, 'Ye have only tarried ten days.'
We know best what they say, when the most exemplary of them in his way
shall say, 'Ye have only tarried a day.'
They will ask thee about the mountains; say, 'My Lord will scatter
them in scattered pieces, and He will leave them a level plain, thou
wilt see therein no crookedness or inequality.'
On that day they shall follow the caller in whom is no
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Or under arches of the marble bridge
Hung, shadowed from the heat: some hid and sought
In the orange thickets: others tost a ball
Above the fountain-jets, and back again
With laughter: others lay about the lawns,
Of the older sort, and murmured that their May
Was passing: what was learning unto them?
They wished to marry; they could rule a house;
Men hated learned women: but we three
Sat muffled like the Fates; and often came
Melissa hitting all we saw with shafts
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