| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: Who loves all beauty -- yet I wither it.
Why have the high gods made me wreak their wrath --
Forever since my maidenhood to sow
Sorrow and blood about me? Lo, they keep
Their bitter care above me even now.
It was the gods who led me to this lair,
That tho' the burning winds should make me weak,
They should not snatch the life from out my lips.
Olympus let the other women die;
They shall be quiet when the day is done
And have no care to-morrow. Yet for me
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: or else thou wilt not get to fair Newark Town till after dark."
At the sound of the name of Robin Hood, the corn factor quaked with fear,
so that he had to seize his horse by the mane to save himself from
falling off its back. Then straightway, and without more words,
he stripped off his clogs and let them fall upon the road.
Robin, still holding the bridle rein, stooped and picked them up.
Then he said, "Sweet friend, I am used to ask those that I
have dealings with to come and feast at Sherwood with me.
I will not ask thee, because of our pleasant journey together;
for I tell thee there be those in Sherwood that would not be
so gentle with thee as I have been. The name of Corn Engrosser
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: versed in law than himself, and very much less so in Samoan.
Whether by more skill or better fortune, Gurr has been able in the
course of a few weeks to recover for the natives several important
tracts of land; and the prejudice against the Commission seems to
be abating as fast as it arose. I should not omit to say that, in
the eagerness of the original advocate, there was much that was
amiable; nor must I fail to point out how much there was of
blindness. Fired by the ardour of pursuit, he seems to have
regarded his immediate clients as the only natives extant and the
epitome and emblem of the Samoan race. Thus, in the case that was
the most exclaimed against as "an injustice to natives," his
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