| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: Not for the prize would I hold
Any ambition or aim:
I would be brave and be true
Just for the good I can do.
I would be useful on earth,
Serving some purpose or cause,
Doing some labor of worth,
Giving no thought to applause.
Thinking less of the gold or the fame
Than the joy and the thrill of the game.
Medals their brightness may lose,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Several Works by Edgar Allan Poe: which gleams from these cavern walls."
He turned towards me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy
orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication.
"Nitre?" he asked, at length.
"Nitre," I replied. "How long have you had that cough?"
"Ugh! ugh! ugh!--ugh! ugh! ugh!--ugh! ugh! ugh!--ugh! ugh!
ugh!--ugh! ugh! ugh!"
My poor friend found it impossible to reply for many minutes.
"It is nothing," he said, at last.
"Come," I said, with decision, "we will go back; your health
is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: the coming stranger. Now she met him in the wood, now at the
castle gate, now in the kitchen by candle-light; each fresh
presentment eclipsed the one before; a form so elegant,
manners so sedate, a countenance so brave and comely, a voice
so winning and resolute - sure such a man was never seen!
The thick-coming fancies poured and brightened in her head
like the smoke and flames upon the hearth.
Presently the heavy foot of her uncle Jonathan was heard upon
the stair, and as he entered the room she bent the closer to
her work. He glanced at the green fagots with a sneer, and
looked askance at the bed and the white sheets, at the strip
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