| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: THE darkened street was muffled with the snow,
The falling flakes had made your shoulders white,
And when we found a shelter from the night
Its glamor fell upon us like a blow.
The clash of dishes and the viol and bow
Mingled beneath the fever of the light.
The heat was full of savors, and the bright
Laughter of women lured the wine to flow.
A little child ate nothing while she sat
Watching a woman at a table there
Lean to a kiss beneath a drooping hat.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Hellas again, and the pleasant bay of Pagasai.'
Then out and spoke the magic bough which stood upon the
ARGO'S beak, 'Because Father Zeus is angry, all this has
fallen on you; for a cruel crime has been done on board, and
the sacred ship is foul with blood.'
At that some of the heroes cried, 'Medeia is the murderess.
Let the witch-woman bear her sin, and die!' And they seized
Medeia, to hurl her into the sea, and atone for the young
boy's death; but the magic bough spoke again, 'Let her live
till her crimes are full. Vengeance waits for her, slow and
sure; but she must live, for you need her still. She must
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: us one of her lesson books if we give her time. And if we have to
wait some time for her answer, you need not fear catching cold,
though it is November; for she keeps her lesson books scattered
about in strange places, and we may have to walk up and down that
hill more than once before we can make out how she makes the glen.
Well--how was the glen made? You shall guess it if you like, and
I will guess too. You think, perhaps, that an earthquake opened
it?
My dear child, we must look before we guess. Then, after we have
looked a little, and got some grounds for guessing, then we may
guess. And you have no ground for supposing there ever was an
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