| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: But Enoch and two others. Half the night,
Buoy'd upon floating tackle and broken spars,
These drifted, stranding on an isle at morn
Rich, but loneliest in a lonely sea.
No want was there of human sustenance,
Soft fruitage, mighty nuts, and nourishing roots;
Nor save for pity was it hard to take
The helpless life so wild that it was tame.
There in a seaward-gazing mountain-gorge
They built, and thatch'd with leaves of palm, a hut,
Half hut, half native cavern. So the three,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: respect in his tone and manner.
The white man nodded and motioned his ebon guide forward
once more. It was the Hon. Morison Baynes--the fastidious--
the exquisite. His face and hands were scratched and smeared
with dried blood from the wounds he had come by in thorn
and thicket. His clothes were tatters. But through the blood
and the dirt and the rags a new Baynes shone forth--a handsomer
Baynes than the dandy and the fop of yore.
In the heart and soul of every son of woman lies the germ of
manhood and honor. Remorse for a scurvy act, and an honorable
desire to right the wrong he had done the woman he now knew he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: He led him by his little coat,
And all admired his priestly care.
And standing on the altar high,
'Lo, what a fiend is here!' said he:
'One who sets reason up for judge
Of our most holy mystery.'
The weeping child could not be heard,
The weeping parents wept in vain:
They stripped him to his little shirt,
And bound him in an iron chain,
And burned him in a holy place
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