| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: Leap into life and don a sunny gown
Of leafage such as happy April has.
Great spring came singing upward from the south;
For in my heart, far carried on the wind,
Your words like winged seeds took root and grew,
And all the world caught music from your mouth;
I saw the light as one who had been blind,
And knew my sun and song and spring were you.
Soul's Birth
When you were born, beloved, was your soul
New made by God to match your body's flower,
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: years, even suppose that there had been a misunderstanding, has still
some claims. Come, sign a treaty of peace by dining with us
to-night--"
Pons involved himself in a diffuse reply, and ended by informing his
cousin that he was to sign a marriage contract that evening; how that
one of the orchestra was not only going to be married, but also about
to fling his flute to the winds to become a banker.
"Very well. To-morrow."
"Mme. la Comtesse Popinot has done me the honor of asking me, cousin.
She was so kind as to write--"
"The day after to-morrow then."
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: letter is not only dead, but killing; the spirit which
underlies, and cannot be uttered, alone is true and helpful.
This is trite to sickness; but familiarity has a cunning
disenchantment; in a day or two she can steal all beauty from
the mountain tops; and the most startling words begin to fall
dead upon the ear after several repetitions. If you see a
thing too often, you no longer see it; if you hear a thing
too often, you no longer hear it. Our attention requires to
be surprised; and to carry a fort by assault, or to gain a
thoughtful hearing from the ruck of mankind, are feats of
about an equal difficulty and must be tried by not dissimilar
|
