| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Some beauty peeped through lattice of sear'd age.
Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,
Which on it had conceited characters,
Laund'ring the silken figures in the brine
That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,
And often reading what contents it bears;
As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe,
In clamours of all size, both high and low.
Sometimes her levell'd eyes their carriage ride;
As they did battery to the spheres intend;
Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Helium, the people of Zodanga are voicing their displeasure,
for the war is not a popular one, since it is not based on
right or justice. Our forces took advantage of the absence
of the principal fleet of Helium on their search for the
princess, and so we have been able easily to reduce the city
to a sorry plight. it is said she will fall within the next few
passages of the further moon."
"And what, think you, may have been the fate of the
princess, Dejah Thoris?" I asked as casually as possible.
"She is dead," he answered. "This much was learned
from a green warrior recently captured by our forces in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Of what God's purpose made me! The coward
Within me cries for this; and I beg you
Now, as I come to the end, to remember
That women and men are on earth to travel
All on a different road. Hereafter
The roads may meet. . . . I trust in something --
I know not what. . . .
Well, this was the way of it: --
Stung with the shame and the secret fury
That comes to the man who has thrown his pittance
Of self at a traitor's feet, I wandered
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