| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Unblown, until thy footstep thrills
Their promise into gold."
And, musing on her here, I too
Must wonder if it can be true
She died, as other mortals do.
The thought would fit her more, to feign
That, full of life and unaware
That earth holds aught of grief or stain,
The fairies stole and hold her where
Death enters not, nor strife nor pain;--
That, drowsing on some bed of pansies,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: came within a yard and a half to peer over. For at any
moment the dump might begin to slide and carry you down and
bury you below its ruins. Indeed, the neighbourhood of an
old mine is a place beset with dangers. For as still as
Silverado was, at any moment the report of rotten wood might
tell us that the platform had fallen into the shaft; the dump
might begin to pour into the road below; or a wedge slip in
the great upright seam, and hundreds of tons of mountain bury
the scene of our encampment.
I have already compared the dump to a rampart, built
certainly by some rude people, and for prehistoric wars. It
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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: Or missed it. Meanwhile, I've a strange content,
A patience, and a vast indifference
To what men say of me and what men fear
To say. There was a work to be begun,
And when the Voice, that I have heard so long,
Announced as in a thousand silences
An end of preparation, I began
The coming work of death which is to be,
That life may be. There is no other way
Than the old way of war for a new land
That will not know itself and is tonight
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