| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Was any more a brute than you or I;
For when they told him that his wife must die,
He stared at them, and shook with grief and fright,
And cried like a great baby half that night,
And made the women cry to see him cry.
And after she was dead, and he had paid
The singers and the sexton and the rest,
He packed a lot of things that she had made
Most mournfully away in an old chest
Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs
In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: Said Ioasaph, "All that thou hast told me I believe without
question, and him whom thou declarest I glorify as God. Only
make all plain to me, and teach me clearly what I must do. But
especially go on to tell me what is that Baptism which thou
sayest that the Faithful receive."
The other answered him thus, "The root mid sure foundation of
this holy and perfect Christian Faith is the grace of heavenly
Baptism, fraught with the cleansing from all original sins, and
complete purification of all defilements of evil that come after.
For thus the Saviour commanded a man to be born again of water
and of the spirit, and be restored to his first dignity, to wit,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: persons to the pest-house and other places) be admitted to common
use till their coaches be well aired, and have stood unemployed by the
space of five or six days after such service.'
ORDERS FOR CLEANSING AND KEEPING OF THE STREETS SWEET.
The Streets to be kept Clean.
'First, it is thought necessary, and so ordered, that every householder
do cause the street to be daily prepared before his door, and so to keep
it clean swept all the week long.
That Rakers take it from out the Houses.
'That the sweeping and filth of houses be daily carried away by the
rakers, and that the raker shall give notice of his coming by the
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