| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson: And next the race to be raised anew, and the lands of the clan
Repeopled. So Rahero designed, a prudent man
Even in wrath, and turned for the means of revenge and escape:
A boat to be seized by stealth, a wife to be taken by rape.
Still was the dark lagoon; beyond on the coral wall,
He saw the breakers shine, he heard them bellow and fall.
Alone, on the top of the reef, a man with a flaming brand
Walked, gazing and pausing, a fish-spear poised in his hand.
The foam boiled to his calf when the mightier breakers came,
And the torch shed in the wind scattering tufts of flame.
Afar on the dark lagoon a canoe lay idly at wait:
Ballads |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: Where the golden apples grow;--
Where below another sky
Parrot islands anchored lie,
And, watched by cockatoos and goats,
Lonely Crusoes building boats;--
Where in sunshine reaching out
Eastern cities, miles about,
Are with mosque and minaret
Among sandy gardens set,
And the rich goods from near and far
Hang for sale in the bazaar;--
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: the very wind of the swift bank-notes and the charm of the
existence of a class that Providence had raised up to be the
blessing of grocers. He liked to think that the class was there,
that it was always there, and that she contributed in her slight
but appreciable degree to keep it up to the mark. He couldn't have
formulated his theory of the matter, but the exuberance of the
aristocracy was the advantage of trade, and everything was knit
together in a richness of pattern that it was good to follow with
one's finger-tips. It was a comfort to him to be thus assured that
there were no symptoms of a drop. What did the sounder, as she
called it, nimbly worked, do but keep the ball going?
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