| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: June Night
Oh Earth, you are too dear to-night,
How can I sleep while all around
Floats rainy fragrance and the far
Deep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?
Oh Earth, you gave me all I have,
I love you, I love you, -- oh what have I
That I can give you in return --
Except my body after I die?
"Like Barley Bending"
Like barley bending
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: to the little clump of cottonwoods where the outlaws had probably
lain while they waited for the express. They scanned this ground
inch by inch. The coals where their camp-fire had been were still
alive. Broken bits of food lay scattered about. Half-trampled
into the ground the sheriff picked up a narrow gold chain and
locket. This last he opened, and found it to contain a tiny
photograph of a young mother and babe, both laughing happily. A
close search failed to disclose anything else of interest.
They returned to their companions, ate breakfast, and saddled. It
was by this time light enough to be moving. The trail was easy as
a printed map, for the object of the outlaws had been haste
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: escape he had effected. Had the Admiral met him with his
father, what would have been the result? And could such a
catastrophe be long postponed? It seemed to him as if the
storm were nearly ripe; and it was so more nearly than he
thought.
He did not go to the cottage in the afternoon, withheld by
fear and shame; but when dinner was over at Naseby House, and
the Squire had gone off into a comfortable doze, Dick slipped
out of the room, and ran across country, in part to save
time, in part to save his own courage from growing cold; for
he now hated the notion of the cottage or the Admiral, and if
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