| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: running water.
And at that his heart was lifted up, though he scarcely dare
believe his ears; and weary as he was, he hurried forward,
though he could scarcely stand upright; and within a bowshot
of him was a glen in the sand, and marble rocks, and date-
trees, and a lawn of gay green grass. And through the lawn a
streamlet sparkled and wandered out beyond the trees, and
vanished in the sand.
The water trickled among the rocks, and a pleasant breeze
rustled in the dry date-branches and Perseus laughed for joy,
and leapt down the cliff, and drank of the cool water, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: AVANT-COURIERS, or more probably the fugitives from the true mass of
mankind--spreading northward from the Tropics into climes becoming,
after the long catastrophe of the age of ice, once more genial
enough to support men who knew what decent comfort was, and were
strong enough to get the same, by all means fair or foul. No. The
tortoise of the human race does not stand on a savage. The savage
may stand on an ape-like creature. I do not say that he does not.
I do not say that he does. I do not know; and no man knows. But at
least I say that the civilised man and his world stand not upon
creatures like to any savage now known upon the earth. For first,
it seems to be most unlikely; and next, and more important to an
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Was Nothing all you found where you have been?
If that be so, what is there worse than that --
Or better -- if that be so? And why should you,
With even our love, go the same dark road over?"
"I could not answer that, if that were so,"
Said Lazarus, -- "not even if I were God.
Why should He care whether I came or stayed,
If that were so? Why should the Master weep --
For me, or for the world, -- or save Himself
Longer for nothing? And if that were so,
Why should a few years' more mortality
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