| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: Sent to him, saying, `Arise, and help us thou!
For here between the man and beast we die.'
And Arthur yet had done no deed of arms,
But heard the call, and came: and Guinevere
Stood by the castle walls to watch him pass;
But since he neither wore on helm or shield
The golden symbol of his kinglihood,
But rode a simple knight among his knights,
And many of these in richer arms than he,
She saw him not, or marked not, if she saw,
One among many, though his face was bare.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: Men travel east and west,
Or what the month or season --
The home-town is the best.
The home-town is the glad town
Where something real abides;
'Tis not the money-mad town
That all its spirit hides.
Though strangers scoff and flout it
And even jeer its name,
It has a charm about it
No other town can claim.
A Heap O' Livin' |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: full of photographs of a sort of procession of himself and his
sons, all with long straight noses and sidelong eyes. It is all
dreadfully old-fashioned. General Joffre sits in a pleasant
little sitting-room in a very ordinary little villa conveniently
close to Headquarters. He sits among furniture that has no
quality of pose at all, that is neither magnificent nor
ostentatiously simple and hardy. He has dark, rather sleepy eyes
under light eyelashes, eyes that glance shyly and a little
askance at his interlocutor and then, as he talks, away--as if he
did not want to be preoccupied by your attention. He has a
broad, rather broadly modelled face, a soft voice, the sort of
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