| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: We'll ne'er come there again.'
KING.
Make choice; and, see:
Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.
HELENA.
Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,
And to imperial Love, that god most high,
Do my sighs stream.--Sir, will you hear my suit?
FIRST LORD.
And grant it.
HELENA.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: by the alleged news and could not fully compre-
hend a defeat.
Before the gray mists had been totally ob-
literated by the sun rays, the regiment was march-
ing in a spread column that was retiring carefully
through the woods. The disordered, hurrying
lines of the enemy could sometimes be seen down
through the groves and little fields. They were
yelling, shrill and exultant.
At this sight the youth forgot many personal
matters and became greatly enraged. He ex-
The Red Badge of Courage |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: And all his treasure lay -
He, waxing into man,
And ever farther, ever closer wound
In this obstreperous world's ignoble round,
From that poor prospect turned his face away.
THE PIPER
AGAIN I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well, -
You rouse the heart to wander and be free,
Tho' where you learned your music, not the God of song can tell,
For you pipe the open highway and the sea.
O piper, lightly footing, lightly piping on your way,
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