| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: That thy sable gender mak'st
With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.
Here the anthem doth commence:
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.
So they lov'd, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: II
My Ship and I
O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond;
And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about;
But when I'm a little older, I shall find the secret out
How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.
For I mean to grow a little as the dolly at the helm,
And the dolly I intend to come alive;
And with him beside to help me, it's a-sailing I shall go,
It's a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: sale, and questioned my own servants before my face; and
that, at last, finding myself quite helpless and exposed to
these intolerable liberties, I had fled from the house in
terror, indignation, and amazement.
'Teresa,' said my father, with singular gravity of voice, 'I
must make to-day a call upon your courage; much must be told
you, there is much that you must do to help me; and my
daughter must prove herself a woman by her spirit. As for
this Mendizabal, what shall I say? or how am I to tell you
what she is? Twenty years ago, she was the loveliest of
slaves; to-day she is what you see her - prematurely old,
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