| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tardos Mors then greeted each of the green jeddaks and jeds,
and to each spoke words of friendship and appreciation
As he approached me he laid both hands upon my shoulders.
"Welcome, my son," he said; "that you are granted, gladly,
and without one word of opposition, the most precious
jewel in all Helium, yes, on all Barsoom, is sufficient
earnest of my esteem."
We were then presented to Mors Kajak, Jed of lesser Helium,
and father of Dejah Thoris. He had followed close behind
Tardos Mors and seemed even more affected by the meeting
than had his father.
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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: Night is the mother of stars,
And wind the mother of foam --
The world is brimming with beauty,
But I must stay at home.
The Broken Field
My soul is a dark ploughed field
In the cold rain;
My soul is a broken field
Ploughed by pain.
Where grass and bending flowers
Were growing,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: humanity. They, as it were, hammered together the fragments of the
human race till they had moulded them into one. They did it
cruelly, clumsily, ill: but was there ever work done on earth,
however noble, which was not--alas, alas!--done somewhat ill?
Let me talk to you a little about the old hero. He and his hardy
Persians should be specially interesting to us. For in them first
does our race, the Aryan race, appear in authentic history. In them
first did our race give promise of being the conquering and
civilising race of the future world. And to the conquests of Cyrus-
-so strangely are all great times and great movements of the human
family linked to each other--to his conquests, humanly speaking, is
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