| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "And who would be your theme, fair sir?" said Spenser.
"No 'who' at all. I don't want to make sonnets to blue eyes, nor
black either: but if I could put down some of the things I saw in
the Spice Islands--"
"Ah," said Raleigh, "he would beat you out of Parnassus, Mr.
Secretary. Remember, you may write about Fairyland, but he has
seen it."
"And so have others," said Spenser; "it is not so far off from any
one of us. Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes, and lofty
souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is Fairyland."
"Then Fairyland should be here, friend; for you represent love, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: and a hundred theories. Not a soul was interested in McGoggin's
soul. He might have had two, or none, or somebody's else's. His
business was to obey orders and keep abreast of his files instead
of devastating the Club with "isms."
He worked brilliantly; but he could not accept any order without
trying to better it. That was the fault of his creed. It made men
too responsible and left too much to their honor. You can
sometimes ride an old horse in a halter; but never a colt.
McGoggin took more trouble over his cases than any of the men of
his year. He may have fancied that thirty-page judgments on fifty-
rupee cases--both sides perjured to the gullet--advanced the cause
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: I took the crystal vessel from his hand.
"The vessel is small," said I, "and what is yet left of its
contents is but scanty; whether its drops suffice to replenish the
lights I cannot guess--I can but obey your instructions. But, more
important by far than the light to the lamps and the circle, which
in Asia or Africa might scare away the wild beasts unknown to this
land--more important than light to a lamp is the strength to your
frame, weak magician! What will support you through six weary
hours of night watch?"
"Hope," answered Margrave, with a ray of his old dazzling style.
"Hope! I shall live--I shall live through the centuries!"
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