| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: cudgel-playing, the utmost coolness is requisite;
and it gave Gurth, whose temper was
steady, though surly, the opportunity of acquiring
a decided advantage, in availing himself of which
he displayed great mastery.
The Miller pressed furiously forward, dealing
blows with either end of his weapon alternately,
and striving to come to half-staff distance, while
Gurth defended himself against the attack, keeping
his hands about a yard asunder, and covering
himself by shifting his weapon with great celerity,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: thorn," that he would be a father to him, and a brother to his
mother, for Christ's sake. And Lady Grenville took the boy by the
hand, and walked home with him to Burrough; and there the two fair
women fell on each other's necks, and wept together; the one for
the loss which had been, the other, as by a prophetic instinct, for
the like loss which was to come to her also. For the sweet St.
Leger knew well that her husband's fiery spirit would never leave
his body on a peaceful bed; but that death (as he prayed almost
nightly that it might) would find him sword in hand, upon the field
of duty and of fame. And there those two vowed everlasting
sisterhood, and kept their vow; and after that all things went on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: And light of a million stars.
I Would Live in Your Love
I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea,
Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes;
I would empty my soul of the dreams that have gathered in me,
I would beat with your heart as it beats, I would follow your soul
as it leads.
Because
Oh, because you never tried
To bow my will or break my pride,
And nothing of the cave-man made
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