| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: comfort and luxury, but who were now without bed or board, or
aught to cover them save the clothes in which they had hastily
dressed when fleeing from the fire. And to many it seemed as if
they had only been saved from one calamity to die by another:
for they had nought wherewith to satisfy their hunger, yet had
too much pride to seek relief.
And whilst yet wildly distracted by their miserable situation,
weary from exhaustion, and nervous from lack of repose, a panic
arose in their midst which added much to their distress. For
suddenly news was spread that the French, Dutch and English
papists were marching on them, prepared to cut their throats. At
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Georgics by Virgil: The firmer sort for Ceres, none too loose
For thee, Lyaeus?- with scrutinizing eye
First choose thy ground, and bid a pit be sunk
Deep in the solid earth, then cast the mould
All back again, and stamp the surface smooth.
If it suffice not, loose will be the land,
More meet for cattle and for kindly vines;
But if, rebellious, to its proper bounds
The soil returns not, but fills all the trench
And overtops it, then the glebe is gross;
Look for stiff ridges and reluctant clods,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: Gluck to collect his thoughts a little, and, seeing no great reason
to view his diminutive visitor with dread, and feeling his curiosity
overcome his amazement, he ventured on a question of peculiar
delicacy.
"Pray, sir," said Gluck, rather hesitatingly, "were you
my mug?"
On which the little man turned sharp round, walked straight
up to Gluck, and drew himself up to his full height. "I," said
the little man, "am the King of the Golden River." Whereupon he
turned about again and took two more turns, some six feet long, in
order to allow time for the consternation which this announcement
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