| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: fountains of light;
O wild and entrancing the strain of keen music
that cleaveth the stars like a wail of
desire,
And beautiful dancers with houri-like faces
bewitch the voluptuous watches of
night.
The scents of red roses and sandalwood flutter
and die in the maze of their gem-tangled
hair,
And smiles are entwining like magical ser-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: that, when the ballast was landed upon the quay at Leith, many
persons carried away specimens of it, as part of a cargo from
the Bell Rock; when he added, that such was the interest
excited, from the number of specimens carried away, that some
of his friends suggested that he should have sent the whole to
the Cross of Edinburgh, where each piece might have sold for a
penny.
[Tuesday, 31st May]
In the evening the boats went to the rock, and brought
the joiners and smiths, and their sickly companions, on board
of the tender. These also brought with them two baskets full
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: ease; and you shall receive a kind welcome.'
I whispered Catherine that she mustn't, on any account, accede to
the proposal: it was entirely out of the question.
'Why?' she asked, aloud. 'I'm tired of running, and the ground is
dewy: I can't sit here. Let us go, Ellen. Besides, he says I
have seen his son. He's mistaken, I think; but I guess where he
lives: at the farmhouse I visited in coming from Penistone' Crags.
Don't you?'
'I do. Come, Nelly, hold your tongue - it will he a treat for her
to look in on us. Hareton, get forwards with the lass. You shall
walk with me, Nelly.'
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