| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas: tried to attract his attention by a loud --
"Umph, umph!"
Cornelius was humming between his teeth the "Hymn of
Flowers," -- a sad but very charming song, --
"We are the daughters of the secret fire
Of the fire which runs through the veins of the earth;
We are the daughters of Aurora and of the dew;
We are the daughters of the air;
We are the daughters of the water;
But we are, above all, the daughters of heaven."
This song, the placid melancholy of which was still
The Black Tulip |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: can, for jealousy has no place in the celestial choir. But when they go to
banquet and festival, then they move up the steep to the top of the vault
of heaven. The chariots of the gods in even poise, obeying the rein, glide
rapidly; but the others labour, for the vicious steed goes heavily,
weighing down the charioteer to the earth when his steed has not been
thoroughly trained:--and this is the hour of agony and extremest conflict
for the soul. For the immortals, when they are at the end of their course,
go forth and stand upon the outside of heaven, and the revolution of the
spheres carries them round, and they behold the things beyond. But of the
heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will
sing worthily? It is such as I will describe; for I must dare to speak the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: have no better opinion of my constancy, pay not so ill
a compliment to my taste.
LETITIA
Did I not see you whisper her to-day?
DIMPLE
Possibly I might--but something of so very trifling
a nature that I have already forgot what it was.
LETITIA
I believe she has not forgot it.
DIMPLE
My dear creature, how can you for a moment sup-
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