| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: The milk is blended with the honey of the bee: quickly come
hither,
baste, and drink.
9 Indra, thy friend is fair of form and rich in horses, cars,
and
kine.
He evermore hath food accompanied by wealth, and radiant joins
the
company.
10 Come like a thirsty antelope to the drinking-place: drink
Soma to
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: She packed it away hastily, but it took some seconds for it was
of the size of a small sheet, and then came running after me.
"Where are you going?" she asked surprised, as I turned down the path
leading to the gate.
"Through this gate," I replied with decision.
"But you mustn't--we're not allowed to go through there-- --"
So strong was the force of old habits in that place that at
the words not allowed my hand <105> dropped of itself from the latch;
and at that instant a voice calling quite close to us through the mist
struck me rigid.
"Elizabeth! Elizabeth!" called the voice, "Come in at once
Elizabeth and her German Garden |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare: She takes him by the hand, and that is cold; 1124
She whispers in his ears a heavy tale,
As if they heard the woeful words she told;
She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes,
Where, lo! two lamps, burnt out, in darkness lies;
Two glasses where herself herself beheld 1129
A thousand times, and now no more reflect;
Their virtue lost, wherein they late excell'd,
And every beauty robb'd of his effect: 1132
'Wonder of time,' quoth she, 'this is my spite,
That, you being dead, the day should yet be light.
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