| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: While not a blade of grass was green.
I laugh'd to see his piteous plight,
For it was well-deserved, I ween.
And may this be the fate of all,
Who treat by day their true loves ill,
And, with foolhardy daring, crawl
By night to Cupid's treacherous mill!
1798.
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THE MAID OF THE MILL'S REPENTANCE.
YOUTH.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: their knapsacks and lunched and rested in the mid-day shadow of
the gorge and the scent of resin. And later they paddled in a
boat above the mysterious deeps of the See, and peered down into
the green-blues and the blue-greens together. By that time it
seemed to them they had lived together twenty years.
Except for one memorable school excursion to Paris, Ann Veronica
had never yet been outside England. So that it seemed to her the
whole world had changed--the very light of it had changed.
Instead of English villas and cottages there were chalets and
Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald
and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lucile by Owen Meredith: With pathos, the picture of that earnest youth,
So unlike his own; how in beauty and truth
He had nurtured that nature, so simple and brave!
And how he had striven his son's youth to save
From the errors so sadly redeem'd in his own,
And so deeply repented: how thus, in that son,
In whose youth he had garner'd his age, he had seem'd
To be bless'd by a pledge that the past was redeem'd,
And forgiven. He bitterly went on to speak
Of the boy's baffled love; in which fate seem'd to break
Unawares on his dreams with retributive pain,
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