| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: heart,
Agni and Soma,-
Protect his sacrifice, preserve him from distress, grant to
the
sacrificer great felicity.
9 Invoked together, mates in wealth, AgniSoma, accept our hymns:
Together be among the Gods.
10 Agni and Soma, unto him who worships you with holy oil
Shine forth an ample recompense.
11 Agni and Sonia, be ye pleased with these oblations brought
to you,
The Rig Veda |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: to the base of the mountain. Here walking was comparatively easy,
for in the hard-wood timber there is little underbrush. The
massive trunks seemed like pillars set to uphold the level roof of
green. Great yellow birches, shaggy with age, stretched their
knotted arms high above us; sugar-maples stood up straight and
proud under their leafy crowns; and smooth beeches--the most
polished and parklike of all the forest trees--offered
opportunities for the carving of lovers' names in a place where few
lovers ever come.
The woods were quiet. It seemed as if all living creatures had
deserted them. Indeed, if you have spent much time in our Northern
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Episode Under the Terror by Honore de Balzac: defended themselves as long as they could, but now it is their turn to
go where they sent so many innocent people."
The crowd poured by like a flood. The abbe, yielding to an impulse of
curiosity, looked up above the heads, and there in the tumbril stood
the man who had heard mass in the garret three days ago.
"Who is it?" he asked; "who is the man with----"
"That is the headsman," answered M. Ragon, calling the executioner--
the executeur des hautes oeuvres--by the name he had borne under the
Monarchy.
"Oh! my dear, my dear! M. l'Abbe is dying!" cried out old Madame
Ragon. She caught up a flask of vinegar, and tried to restore the old
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