| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: CLIFFORD.
I would your highness would depart the field;
The queen hath best success when you are absent.
QUEEN MARGARET.
Ay, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune.
KING HENRY.
Why, that's my fortune too; therefore I'll stay.
NORTHUMBERLAND.
Be it with resolution then to fight.
PRINCE.
My royal father, cheer these noble lords,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Symposium by Xenophon: (Zeune).
[56] See "Hunting," i.; "Hell." VI. iii. 6.
[57] See Plat. "Phaedr." 255 C; Cic. "Tusc." i. 26, "nec Homerum audio
. . . divina mallem ad nos," a protest against anthropomorphism in
religion.
[58] Not in "our" version of Homer, but cf. "Il." xx. 405, {ganutai de
te tois 'Enosikhthon}; "Il." xiii. 493, {ganutai d' ara te phrena
poimen}.
And again, in another passage he says:
Knowing deep devices ({medea}) in his mind,[59]
which is as much as to say, "knowing wise counsels in his mind."
The Symposium |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: Me, still in ignorance of the cause,
Unknowing what I broke of laws?"
The whisper to his ear did seem
Like echoed flow of silent stream,
Or shadow of forgotten dream,
The whisper trembling in the wind:
"Her fate with thine was intertwined,"
So spake it in his inner mind:
"Each orbed on each a baleful star:
Each proved the other's blight and bar:
Each unto each were best, most far:
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