| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O my soul is white!
White as an angel is the English child,
But I am black, as if bereaved of light.
My mother taught me underneath a tree,
And, sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And, pointing to the East, began to say:
'Look on the rising sun: there God does live,
And gives His light, and gives His heat away,
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: Sister Theckla and Sister Angela came to the door of the room,--and
they were so astonished that they could only look at one another and
say to one another: ``What do they mean? Where did they learn
that?''
And the little girl who had taught the other little girls that much
of the song remembered some more; and so she beat louder than ever
on the window pane and said:
``Rain, rain, rain,
Go away!
And come another day!''
All the little girls laughed more than ever and sang louder than
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: courtesies, he carried off, not only all the gold, but all the
Indians he could seize, and took them in irons to Cubagua, and sold
them for slaves; after which, Delgado was shot in the eye by an
Indian, of which hurt he died;" Pedro d'Orsua, who found the
cinnamon forests of Loxas, "whom his men murdered, and afterwards
beheaded Lady Anes his wife, who forsook not her lord in all his
travels unto death," and many another, who has vanished with
valiant comrades at his back into the green gulfs of the primaeval
forests, never to emerge again. Golden phantom! man-devouring,
whose maw is never satiate with souls of heroes; fatal to Spain,
more fatal still to England upon that shameful day, when the last
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