| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profan'd, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Sland'ring creation with a false esteem:
Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says beauty should look so.
CXXXIII
How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: who could not live alone in the Abyss. And as he sang, his
voice rose from the cave, above the crags, and through the
tree-tops, and the glens of oak and pine. And the trees
bowed their heads when they heard it, and the gray rocks
cracked and rang, and the forest beasts crept near to listen,
and the birds forsook their nests and hovered round. And old
Cheiron claps his hands together, and beat his hoofs upon the
ground, for wonder at that magic song.
Then Peleus kissed his boy, and wept over him, and they went
down to the ship; and Cheiron came down with them, weeping,
and kissed them one by one, and blest them, and promised to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber: piped in a high, thin voice. The shock of relief was too
much. We giggled hysterically, then stopped short and
looked at each other, like scared and naughty children.
"Sa-a-ay, boys and girls, cut out the heavy thinking
parts. Don't make me do all the social stunts. What's
the news? What kind of a rotten cotton sportin' sheet is
that dub Callahan gettin' out? Who won to-day--Cubs or
Pirates? Norberg, you goat, who pinned that purple tie
on you?"
He was so like the Blackie we had always known that
we were at our ease immediately. The sun shone in at the
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