| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Hold me on your heart as the brave sea holds the foam,
Take me far away to the hills that hide your home;
Peace shall thatch the roof and love shall latch the door--
BUT WHAT IF I HEARD MY FIRST LOVE CALLING ME ONCE MORE?
NEW LOVE AND OLD
IN my heart the old love
Struggled with the new;
It was ghostly waking
All night thru.
Dear things, kind things,
That my old love said,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: had yet gone down. So Aunt Jane, who was wont to be perfectly
decisive in her treatment of every human being, was fluctuating
and inconsistent with Emilia. She could not help being
fascinated by the motherless child, and yet scorned herself for
even the doubting love she gave.
"Only think, auntie," said Kate, "how you kissed Emilia,
yesterday!"
"Of course I did," she remorsefully owned. "I have kissed her
a great many times too often. I never will kiss her again.
There is nothing but sorrow to be found in loving her, and her
heart is no larger than her feet. Today she was not even
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd
To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify.
THAISA.
Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,
My father's dead.
PERICLES.
Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,
We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves
Will in that kingdom spend our following days:
Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.
Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay
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