| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: In looking over my sister Anne's papers, I find mournful evidence
that religious feeling had been to her but too much like what it
was to Cowper; I mean, of course, in a far milder form. Without
rendering her a prey to those horrors that defy concealment, it
subdued her mood and bearing to a perpetual pensiveness; the
pillar of a cloud glided constantly before her eyes; she ever
waited at the foot of a secret Sinai, listening in her heart to
the voice of a trumpet sounding long and waxing louder. Some,
perhaps, would rejoice over these tokens of sincere though
sorrowing piety in a deceased relative: I own, to me they seem
sad, as if her whole innocent life had been passed under the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: posed in his own identity. Now they merely accepted the
conditions that had existed for two years as though a mat-
ter of fact which had been often discussed between them.
"Of course I'll marry you," said the princess. "Why in the
world would I want you to take me to America otherwise?"
As Barney Custer took her in his arms he was happier
than he had ever before been in all his life, and so, too,
was the Princess Emma von der Tann.
XII
LEOPOLD WAITS FOR DAWN
AFTER THE American had shoved him through the secret
The Mad King |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: PIERROT'S SONG
NIGHT IN ARIZONA
DUSK IN WAR TIME
SPRING IN WAR TIME
WHILE I MAY
DEBT
FROM THE NORTH
THE LIGHTS OF NEW YORK
SEA LONGING
THE RIVER
LEAVES
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