| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: king in one hand and Jacob Stuck in the other, and flew away with
them swifter than the wind. On and on he flew, and the earth
seemed to slide away beneath them like a cloud. On and on he flew
until he had come to the farthest part of the desert. There he
sat them both down, and it was as pretty a pickle as ever the
king or Jacob Stuck had been in, in all of their lives. Then the
Genie flew back again whence he had come.
There sat the poor princess crying and crying, and there sat the
prime-minister trying to comfort her. "Why do you cry?" said he;
"why are you afraid of me? I will do you no harm. Listen," said
he; "I will use this piece of good luck in a way that Jacob Stuck
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: When Lord George took Ginger for hunting, York shook his head;
he said it ought to be a steady hand to train a horse for the first season,
and not a random rider like Lord George.
Ginger used to like it very much, but sometimes when she came back
I could see that she had been very much strained, and now and then
she gave a short cough. She had too much spirit to complain,
but I could not help feeling anxious about her.
Two days after the accident Blantyre paid me a visit;
he patted me and praised me very much; he told Lord George that he was sure
the horse knew of Annie's danger as well as he did. "I could not have
held him in if I would," said he, "she ought never to ride any other horse."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: And closes their eyes.
The stars sink down ashamed
And the dawn awakes,
Like a youth who steals from a brothel,
Dizzy and sick.
THE STAR
A WHITE star born in the evening glow
Looked to the round green world below,
And saw a pool in a wooded place
That held like a jewel her mirrored face.
She said to the pool: "Oh, wondrous deep,
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