| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: Queen Gulnaar sat on her ivory bed,
Decking with jewels her exquisite head;
And still she gazed in her mirror and sighed:
"O King, my heart is unsatisfied."
Queen Gulnsar's daughter two spring times old,
In blue robes bordered with tassels of gold,
Ran to her knee like a wildwood fay,
And plucked from her hand the mirror away.
Quickly she set on her own light curls
Her mother's fillet with fringes of pearls;
Quickly she turned with a child's caprice
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: name. Many years have already elapsed since they ceased to exist
as a party.
[Footnote a: [It is scarcely necessary to remark that in more
recent times the signification of these terms has changed. The
Republicans are the representatives of the old Federalists, and
the Democrats of the old Republicans. - Trans. Note (1861).]] The
accession of the Federalists to power was, in my opinion, one of
the most fortunate incidents which accompanied the formation of
the great American Union; they resisted the inevitable
propensities of their age and of the country. But whether their
theories were good or bad, they had the effect of being
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil: ECLOGUE X
GALLUS
This now, the very latest of my toils,
Vouchsafe me, Arethusa! needs must I
Sing a brief song to Gallus- brief, but yet
Such as Lycoris' self may fitly read.
Who would not sing for Gallus? So, when thou
Beneath Sicanian billows glidest on,
May Doris blend no bitter wave with thine,
Begin! The love of Gallus be our theme,
And the shrewd pangs he suffered, while, hard by,
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