| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: as we have in the past, adhere to the more familiar forms
of our grammar school copybooks. It would tire you
to remember that DO meant b, TU o, and RO y,
and that to say he-boy you must prefix the ape masculine
gender sound BU before the entire word and the feminine
gender sound MU before each of the lower-case letters
which go to make up boy--it would tire you and it would
bring me to the nineteenth hole several strokes under par.
And so Tarzan harangued the moon, and when Goro did not reply,
Tarzan of the Apes waxed wroth. He swelled his giant
chest and bared his fighting fangs, and hurled into the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: My eyes are tired of weeping,
My heart is sick of woe;
My life is very lonely
My days pass heavily,
I'm weary of repining;
Wilt thou not come to me?
Oh, didst thou know my longings
For thee, from day to day,
My hopes, so often blighted,
Thou wouldst not thus delay!
THE STUDENT'S SERENADE.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from My Aunt Margaret's Mirror by Walter Scott: every step of the way, after I have passed through the green
already mentioned, has for me something of early remembrance:--
There is the stile at which I can recollect a cross child's-maid
upbraiding me with my infirmity as she lifted me coarsely and
carelessly over the flinty steps, which my brothers traversed
with shout and bound. I remember the suppressed bitterness of
the moment, and, conscious of my own inferiority, the feeling of
envy with which I regarded the easy movements and elastic steps
of my more happily formed brethren. Alas! these goodly barks
have all perished on life's wide ocean, and only that which
seemed so little seaworthy, as the naval phrase goes, has reached
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