| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Across the calm Connecticut the hills change
To violet, the veils of dusk are deep --
Earth takes her children's many sorrows calmly
And stills herself to sleep.
Nahant
Bowed as an elm under the weight of its beauty,
So earth is bowed, under her weight of splendor,
Molten sea, richness of leaves and the burnished
Bronze of sea-grasses.
Clefts in the cliff shelter the purple sand-peas
And chicory flowers bluer than the ocean
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: think none the worse, I think the more of you, for this
engaging frankness. And in the meanwhile, what are you to
do? You find yourself, if I interpret rightly, in very much
the same situation as Charles the Second (possibly the least
degraded of your British sovereigns) when he was taken into
the confidence of the thief. To denounce me, is out of the
question; and what else can you attempt? No, dear Mr.
Somerset, your hands are tied; and you find yourself
condemned, under pain of behaving like a cad, to be that same
charming and intellectual companion who delighted me last
night.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: given you?
JOS 18:4 Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will
send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it
according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
JOS 18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide
in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in
their coasts on the north.
JOS 18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and
bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here
before the LORD our God.
JOS 18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of
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