| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: One light together, but has past and leaves
The Crown a lonely splendour.
May all love,
His love, unseen but felt, o'ershadow Thee,
The love of all Thy sons encompass Thee,
The love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee,
The love of all Thy people comfort Thee,
Till God's love set Thee at his side again!
The Coming of Arthur
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard,
Had one fair daughter, and none other child;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: yet so intimately been, had the consciousness of opening to it,
for the happy instant, all the windows of his mind, of letting this
rather grey interior drink in for once the sun of a clime not
marked in his old geography. He was to remember again repeatedly
the medal-like Italian face, in which every line was an artist's
own, in which time told only as tone and consecration; and he was
to recall in especial, as the penetrating radiance, as the
communication of the illustrious spirit itself, the manner in
which, while they stood briefly, in welcome and response, face to
face, he was held by the sculptor's eyes. He wasn't soon to forget
them, was to think of them, all unconscious, unintending,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: therefore if woman is to be saved from degeneration and parasitism, and the
body of humanity from arrest, she must receive a training which will
cultivate all the intellectual and all the physical faculties with which
she is endowed, and be allowed freely to employ them; nevertheless, would
it not be possible, and perhaps be well, that a dividing line of some kind
should be drawn between the occupations of men and of women? Would it not,
for example, be possible that woman should retain agriculture, textile
manufacture, trade, domestic management, the education of youth, and
medicine, in addition to child-bearing, as her exclusive fields of toil;
while, to the male, should be left the study of abstract science, law and
war, and statecraft; as of old, man took war and the chase, and woman
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