| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: The Hart and the Hunter
The Hart was once drinking from a pool and admiring the noble
figure he made there. "Ah," said he, "where can you see such
noble horns as these, with such antlers! I wish I had legs more
worthy to bear such a noble crown; it is a pity they are so slim
and slight." At that moment a Hunter approached and sent an arrow
whistling after him. Away bounded the Hart, and soon, by the aid
of his nimble legs, was nearly out of sight of the Hunter; but not
noticing where he was going, he passed under some trees with
branches growing low down in which his antlers were caught, so
that the Hunter had time to come up. "Alas! alas!" cried the
Aesop's Fables |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: together with three of the more faithful of their people, left
the castle.
His memory of past things held a picture for Myles of old Diccon
Bowman standing over him in the silence of midnight with a
lighted lamp in his hand, and with it a recollection of being
bidden to hush when he would have spoken, and of being dressed by
Diccon and one of the women, bewildered with sleep, shuddering
and chattering with cold.
He remembered being wrapped in the sheepskin that lay at the foot
of his bed, and of being carried in Diccon Bowman's arms down the
silent darkness of the winding stair-way, with the great black
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry: and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they
are wisest. They are the magi.
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
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