| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: aught could rival them, it was the flaming, bickering fagots in
the chimney, that sent at once their gleam and their warmth
through the snug apartment, which, notwithstanding the general
antiquity of its appearance, was not wanting in the least
convenience that modern habits rendered either necessary or
desirable.
"This is an old-fashioned sleeping apartment, General," said the
young lord; "but I hope you find nothing that makes you envy your
old tobacco-cask."
"I am not particular respecting my lodgings," replied the
General; "yet were I to make any choice, I would prefer this
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Like ripe fruit bearing down the tree,
But I can never give you one --
My songs do not belong to me.
Yet in the evening, in the dusk
When moths go to and fro,
In the gray hour if the fruit has fallen,
Take it, no one will know.
The Nights Remember
The days remember and the nights remember
The kingly hours that once you made so great,
Deep in my heart they lie, hidden in their splendor,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: was serene and still, the sky presented the most beautiful
appearance of bright stars, and the morning was ushered in
with the song of many little birds.'
`ABERDEEN, JULY 19TH.
`I hope, my dear, that you are going out of doors
regularly and taking much exercise. I would have you to MAKE
THE MARKETS DAILY - and by all means to take a seat in the
coach once or twice in the week and see what is going on in
town. [The family were at the sea-side.] It will be good not
to be too great a stranger to the house. It will be rather
painful at first, but as it is to be done, I would have you
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