| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: LEADER no more, be judged of us!
Hailed Chief, and loved, of yore--
Youth, and the faith of youth, cry out:
Leader and Chief no more!
We dreamed a Prophet, flushed with faith,
Content to toil in pain
If that his sacrifice might be,
Somehow, his people's gain.
We saw a vision, and our blood
Beat red and hot and strong:
"Lead us (we cried) to war against
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum: laid, and without the chance to cackle I would not be happy."
"It's strange," said the girl, reflectively; "but as I'm not a hen I
can't be 'spected to understand that."
"Certainly not, my dear."
Then Dorothy fell silent again. The yellow hen was some company, and
a bit of comfort, too; but it was dreadfully lonely out on the big
ocean, nevertheless.
After a time the hen flew up and perched upon the topmost slat of the
coop, which was a little above Dorothy's head when she was sitting
upon the bottom, as she had been doing for some moments past.
"Why, we are not far from land!" exclaimed the hen.
Ozma of Oz |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: the beginning to the closing words, "And go to hell or Hadleyburg--
try and make it the for-or-m-e-r!" and in these special cases they
added a grand and agonised and imposing "A-a-a-a-MEN!"
The list dwindled, dwindled, dwindled, poor old Richards keeping
tally of the count, wincing when a name resembling his own was
pronounced, and waiting in miserable suspense for the time to come
when it would be his humiliating privilege to rise with Mary and
finish his plea, which he was intending to word thus: ". . . for
until now we have never done any wrong thing, but have gone our
humble way unreproached. We are very poor, we are old, and, have no
chick nor child to help us; we were sorely tempted, and we fell. It
The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg |
