| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: Will you not bring me to your oratory
Where prayers arose like little birds set free
Still upward, upward without sound of flight?
Shall I not find your turrets toward the north,
Where you defied white winter armed for war;
Your southern casements where the sun blows in
Between the leaf-bent boughs the wind has lifted?
Shall we not see the sunrise toward the east,
Watch dawn by dawn the rose of day unfolding
Its golden-hearted beauty sovereignly;
And toward the west look quietly at evening?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: and men. And thus, as the elves and bogarts of popular lore
are in many cases descended from ancient divinities of Olympos
and Valhalla, so these in turn must acknowledge their
ancestors in the shadowy denizens of the primeval ghost-world.
August, 1872.
NOTE.
THE following are some of the modern works most likely to be
of use to the reader who is interested in the legend of
William Tell.
HISELY, J. J. Dissertatio historiea inauguralis de Oulielmo
Tellio, etc. Groningae, 1824.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Walking by Henry David Thoreau: and spade.
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is
but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and
wild thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the scriptures and
mythologies, not learned in the schools, that delights us. As the
wild duck is more swift and beautiful than the tame, so is the
wild--the mallard--thought, which 'mid falling dews wings its way
above the fens. A truly good book is something as natural, and as
unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower
discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the
East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like
Walking |
