| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Pluck flowers after rain.
And when they are ours in the end
Perhaps after all
The skies will not open for us
Nor heaven be there at our call.
"It Will Not Change"
It will not change now
After so many years;
Life has not broken it
With parting or tears;
Death will not alter it,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: disposition," said Imogen, taking a careful stitch in
her embroidery. "But a sweet disposition is very
often extremely difficult for other people. It con-
stantly puts them in the wrong. I am well aware of
the fact that dear Annie does a great deal for all
of us, but it is sometimes irritating. Of course
it is quite certain that she must have a feeling
of superiority because of it, and she should not
have it."
Sometimes Eliza made illuminating speeches. "I
suppose it follows, then," said she, with slight irony,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac: V
After two hours' thought and care, during which Eugenie jumped up
twenty times from her work to see if the coffee were boiling, or to go
and listen to the noise her cousin made in dressing, she succeeded in
preparing a simple little breakfast, very inexpensive, but which,
nevertheless, departed alarmingly from the inveterate customs of the
house. The midday breakfast was always taken standing. Each took a
slice of bread, a little fruit or some butter, and a glass of wine. As
Eugenie looked at the table drawn up near the fire with an arm-chair
placed before her cousin's plate, at the two dishes of fruit, the egg-
cup, the bottle of white wine, the bread, and the sugar heaped up in a
Eugenie Grandet |
