| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: And Heracles and Prometheus wept over him, and went to bury
him on Pelion; but Zeus took him up among the stars, to live
for ever, grand and mild, low down in the far southern sky.
And in time the heroes died, all but Nestor, the silver-
tongued old man; and left behind them valiant sons, but not
so great as they had been. Yet their fame, too, lives till
this day, for they fought at the ten years' siege of Troy:
and their story is in the book which we call Homer, in two of
the noblest songs on earth - the 'Iliad,' which tells us of
the siege of Troy, and Achilles' quarrel with the kings; and
the 'Odyssey,' which tells the wanderings of Odysseus,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: I wait His time' and Enoch set himself,
Scorning an alms, to work whereby to live.
Almost to all things could he turn his hand.
Cooper he was and carpenter, and wrought
To make the boatmen fishing-nets, or help'd
At lading and unlading the tall barks,
That brought the stinted commerce of those days;
Thus earn'd a scanty living for himself:
Yet since he did but labor for himself,
Work without hope, there was not life in it
Whereby the man could live; and as the year
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr. Apollinax
Hysteria
Conversation Galante
La Figlia Che Piange
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
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