| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "What of that?" said Amyas, who caught his meaning in his tone.
"Dost think I am going to leap over cliff? I have not heart enough
for that. On, lads, and set me safe among the rocks."
So slowly, and painfully, they went on, while Amyas murmured to
himself:
"No, no other place will suit; I can see all thence."
So on they went to the point, where the cyclopean wall of granite
cliff which forms the western side of Lundy, ends sheer in a
precipice of some three hundred feet, topped by a pile of snow-
white rock, bespangled with golden lichens. As they approached, a
raven, who sat upon the topmost stone, black against the bright
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: Nor dim with tears this limpid Castaly!
Cease, Philomel, thou dost the forest wrong
To vex its sylvan quiet with such wild impassioned song!
Cease, cease, or if 't is anguish to be dumb
Take from the pastoral thrush her simpler air,
Whose jocund carelessness doth more become
This English woodland than thy keen despair,
Ah! cease and let the north wind bear thy lay
Back to the rocky hills of Thrace, the stormy Daulian bay.
A moment more, the startled leaves had stirred,
Endymion would have passed across the mead
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Cousin Pons by Honore de Balzac: on without me?"
"Schmucke nursed me," said the invalid; "but our poor money-box and
our lessons have suffered. I do not know how he managed."
"Calm yourself, Bons," exclaimed Schmucke; "ve haf in Zipod ein
panker--"
"Do not speak of it, my lamb. You are our children, both of you,"
cried La Cibot. "Our savings will be well invested; you are safer than
the Bank. So long as we have a morsel of bread, half of it is yours.
It is not worth mentioning--"
"Boor Montame Zipod!" said Schmucke, and he went.
Pons said nothing.
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