| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: popular epithet soon came to be Canny Elshie, or the Wise Wight
of Mucklestane-Moor. Some extended their queries beyond their
bodily complaints, and requested advice upon other matters, which
he delivered with an oracular shrewdness that greatly confirmed
the opinion of his possessing preternatural skill. The querists
usually left some offering upon a stone, at a distance from his
dwelling; if it was money, or any article which did not suit him
to accept, he either threw it away, or suffered it to remain
where it was without making use of it. On all occasions his
manners were rude and unsocial; and his words, in number, just
sufficient to express his meaning as briefly as possible, and he
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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: And prize my memory."
Farewell, then, all that love,
All that deep sympathy:
Sleep on: Heaven laughs above,
Earth never misses thee.
Turf-sod and tombstone drear
Part human company;
One heart breaks only--here,
But that heart was worthy thee!
LAST WORDS.
I knew not 'twas so dire a crime
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: And fires are kindled and quenched; and dreams are broken,
And walls flung down . . .
And the slow night whirls in snow over towers of dreamers,
And whiteness hushes the town.
PART III
I
As evening falls,
And the yellow lights leap one by one
Along high walls;
And along black streets that glisten as if with rain,
The muted city seems
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