| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: In serried splendour, and the night unfold
Her velvet darkness wrought with starry gold
For kingly raiment, soft as cygnet-down.
My hair shall braid thy temples like a crown
Of sapphires, and my kiss upon thy brows
Like cithar-music lull thee to repose,
Till the sun yield thee homage of his light.
O king, thy kingdom who from thee can wrest?
What fate shall dare uncrown thee from this breast,
O god-born lover, whom my love doth gird
And armour with impregnable delight
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the jungle the cloud shadows produced a thick blackness that
might almost be felt -- a blackness that to you and me might
have proven terrifying with its accompaniment of rustling
leaves and cracking twigs, and its even more suggestive inter-
vals of utter silence in which the crudest of imaginations
might have conjured crouching beasts of prey tensed for the
fatal charge; but through it Tarzan passed unconcerned, yet
always alert. Now he swung lightly to the lower terraces
of the overarching trees when some subtle sense warned him
that Numa lay upon a kill directly in his path, or again he
sprang lightly to one side as Buto, the rhinoceros, lumbered
Tarzan the Untamed |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: sort of poultry not much exceeding the size of a tame pidgeon,
with legs so short as their crops seemed to touch ye earth; a
milk-white raven; a stork which was a rarity at this season,
seeing he was loose and could fly loftily; two Balearian cranes,
one of which having had one of his leggs broken, and cut off
above the knee, had a wooden or boxen leg and thigh, with a
joint so accurately made that ye creature could walke and use it
as well as if it had ben natural; it was made by a souldier. The
park was at this time stored with numerous flocks of severall
sorts of ordinary and extraordinary wild fowle breeding about the
decoy, which, looking neere so greate a citty, and among such a
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