| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: But mind your human debts are paid,
As one by one the phantoms go.
ENVOY
Life is the game that must be played:
This truth at least, good friend, we know;
So live and laugh, nor be dismayed
As one by one the phantoms go.
Ballade of Broken Flutes
(To A. T. Schumann.)
In dreams I crossed a barren land,
A land of ruin, far away;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Koran: liar; open between me and between them an opening, and save me and
those of the believers who are with me!'
So we saved him and those with him in the laden ark, then we drowned
the rest; verily, in that is a sign, but most of them will never be
believers; and, verily, thy Lord He is mighty and merciful.
And 'Ad called the apostles liars; when their brother Hud said to
them, 'Will ye not fear? Verily, I am to you a faithful apostle;
then fear God and obey me. I do not ask you for it any hire; my hire
is only with the Lord of the worlds. Do ye build on every height a
landmark in sport, and take to works that haply ye may be immortal?
'And when ye assault ye assault like tyrants; but fear God and
The Koran |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: in great pain of my flayed hands, and had nothing to treat them
with; I was hungry and thirsty, and had nothing to eat or to drink;
I was thoroughly tired, and there was no place for me to sit. To
be sure there was the floor, but nothing could be imagined less
inviting.
At the sound of approaching footsteps, my good-humour was restored.
The key rattled in the lock, and Master Ronald entered, closed the
door behind him, and leaned his back to it.
'I say, you know!' he said, and shook a sullen young head.
'I know it's a liberty,' said I.
'It's infernally awkward: my position is infernally embarrassing,'
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