| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: And brood on the soft forgotten things
That filled their shadowy yesterdays. . . .
Where are the breasts, the scarlet wings? . . . .
They gaze at each other with troubled gaze. . . .
And then, as the shadow closes the moon,
Shout, and strike with their hooves the ground,
And rush through the dark, and fill the night
With a slowly dying clamor of sound.
There, where the great walls crowd the stars,
There, by the black wind-riven walls,
In a grove of twisted leafless trees. . . .
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Has He commanded that His name
Be written everywhere the same?
Have all who live in every place
Identified His hidden face?
Who knows but He may like as well
My story as one you may tell?
And if He show me there be Peace
On Earth, as there be fields and trees
Outside a jail-yard, am I wrong
If now I sing Him a new song?
Your world is in yourself, my friend,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: gave her a sense of warmth and peace to hear him thus as she lay
in bed, the children not yet awake, in the bright early morning,
happy in his man's fashion.
At nine o'clock, while the children with bare legs and feet
were sitting playing on the sofa, and the mother was washing up,
he came in from his carpentry, his sleeves rolled up, his waistcoat
hanging open. He was still a good-looking man, with black,
wavy hair, and a large black moustache. His face was perhaps too
much inflamed, and there was about him a look almost of peevishness.
But now he was jolly. He went straight to the sink where his wife
was washing up.
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