| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: pale and his girlish lip was trembling.
"Eh?" murmured the youth in great aston-
ishment.
"It's my first and last battle, old boy,"
continued the loud soldier. "Something tells
me--"
"What?"
"I'm a gone coon this first time and--and I
w-want you to take these here things--to--my--
folks." He ended in a quavering sob of pity for
himself. He handed the youth a little packet
The Red Badge of Courage |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: As when they left their native place.
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So felt I, when I wond'ring heard
My song to foreign tongues transferr'd.
1828.
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SHOULD E'ER THE LOVELESS DAY.
SHOULD e'er the loveless day remain
Obscured by storms of hail and rain,
Thy charms thou showest never;
I tap at window, tap at door:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Davis: for amusement led him in the same direction. They met
him and his cousin, Captain Odo Wolfburgh, at Oban, and
again on the ramparts of Stirling Castle, and the very
day that they arrived in Edinburgh, there, in Holyrood,
in Queen Mary's chamber, stood the pursy little man,
curling his mustache before her mirror.
Mr. Perry fell into the background with Miss Hassard.
"His Highness is becoming monotonous!" he grumbled.
"These foreigners never know when they are superfluous in
society."
"Is he superfluous?" Jean glanced to the corner where the
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