| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Kept the dark mould soft above it,
Kept it clean from weeds and insects,
Drove away, with scoffs and shoutings,
Kahgahgee, the king of ravens.
Till at length a small green feather
From the earth shot slowly upward,
Then another and another,
And before the Summer ended
Stood the maize in all its beauty,
With its shining robes about it,
And its long, soft, yellow tresses;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: of the suspicion of having instigated his death.
It may be said, in general, that most of the incidents introduced
in the following tale are fictitious, and that reality, where it
exists, is only retained in the characters of the piece.
ABBOTSFORD, 1st July, 1832
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APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION.
While warring in the Holy Land, Richard was seized with an ague.
The best leeches of the camp were unable to effect the cure of
the King's disease; but the prayers of the army were more
successful. He became convalescent, and the first symptom of his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad: set on fire and sent adrift. She was conscious, and in the great
peace and stillness of the tropical evening succeeding the
turmoil of the battle, she watched all she held dear on earth
after her own savage manner, drift away into the gloom in a great
roar of flame and smoke. She lay there unheeding the careful
hands attending to her wound, silent and absorbed in gazing at
the funeral pile of those brave men she had so much admired and
so well helped in their contest with the redoubtable
"Rajah-Laut."
The light night breeze fanned the brig gently to the southward,
and the great blaze of light got smaller and smaller till it
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