| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: friends and he had obeyed a hasty summons received from Elshie
through the faithful Ratcliffe. And it was a lucky chance, he
said, that on that very day they had got notice that Westburnflat
did not intend to keep his tryste at Castleton, but to hold them
at defiance; so that a considerable party had assembled at the
Heugh-foot, with the intention of paying a visit to the robber's
tower on the ensuing morning, and their course was easily
directed to Ellieslaw Castle.
CHAPTER XVIII.
--Last scene of all,
To close this strange eventful history. AS YOU LIKE IT.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: Nor would I fight with iron laws, in the end
Found golden: let the past be past; let be
Their cancelled Babels: though the rough kex break
The starred mosaic, and the beard-blown goat
Hang on the shaft, and the wild figtree split
Their monstrous idols, care not while we hear
A trumpet in the distance pealing news
Of better, and Hope, a poising eagle, burns
Above the unrisen morrow:' then to me;
'Know you no song of your own land,' she said,
'Not such as moans about the retrospect,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift: He ne'er was partial to his kin;
He thought it base for men in stations
To crowd the court with their relations:
His country was his dearest mother,
And every virtuous man his brother:
Through modesty or awkward shame
(For which he owns himself to blame),
He found the wisest men he could,
Without respect to friends or blood;
Nor never acts on private views,
When he hath liberty to choose.
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