| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: The Cloud then shewd his golden head & his bright form emerg'd.
Hovering and glittering on the air before the face of Thel.
O virgin know'st thou not our steeds drink of the golden springs
Where Luvah doth renew his horses: lookst thou on my youth.
And fearest thou because I vanish and am seen no more.
Nothing remains; O maid I tell thee, when I pass away.
It is to tenfold life, to love, to peace, and raptures holy:
Unseen descending, weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers:
And court the fair eyed dew, to take me to her shining tent
The weeping virgin, trembling kneels before the risen sun.
Till we arise link'd in a golden band and never part:
Poems of William Blake |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Memorabilia by Xenophon: against him "what to suffer or what to pay."[5] The accused, conscious
as he was of many rascally deeds, did all he could to be quit of
Archedemus, but Archedemus was not to be got rid of. He held on until
he had made the informer not only loose his hold of Crito but pay
himself a sum of money; and now that Archedemus had achieved this and
other similar victories, it is easy to guess what followed.[6] It was
just as when some shepherd has got a very good dog, all the other
shepherds wish to lodge their flocks in his neighbourhood that they
too may reap the benefit of him. So a number of Crito's friends came
begging him to allow Archedemus to be their guardian also, and
Archedemus was overjoyed to do something to gratify Crito, and so it
The Memorabilia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy: tears.
In silence they waited through an interval which seemed
endless. At length a sound, and an approaching object,
proved to them that the driver of the mail-car had been
as good as his word. A farmer's man from near
Stourcastle came up, leading a strong cob. He was
harnessed to the waggon of beehives in the place of
Prince, and the load taken on towards Casterbridge.
The evening of the same day saw the empty waggon reach
again the spot of the accident. Prince had lain there
in the ditch since the morning; but the place of the
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman |
