| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: They shall remember how we used to walk
Here on the cliff beneath the oleanders
In the long limpid twilight of the spring,
Looking toward Lemnos, where the amber sky
Was pierced with the faint arrow of a star.
How should they know the wind of a new beauty
Sweeping my soul had winnowed it with song?
I have been glad tho' love should come or go,
Happy as trees that find a wind to sway them,
Happy again when it has left them rest.
Others shall say, "Grave Dica wrought her death.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift: and this way of expression is after the usual dark manner of old
astrological predictions.
Then shall the Fyshe, etc. By the fish, is understood the Dauphin
of France, as their kings eldest sons are called: 'Tis here said,
he shall lament the loss of the Duke of Burgundy, called the
Bosse, which is an old English word for hump-shoulder, or
crook-back, as that Duke is known to be; and the prophecy seems
to mean, that he should be overcome or slain. By the green
berrys, in the next line, is meant the young Duke of Berry, the
Dauphin's third son, who shall not have valour or fortune enough
to supply the loss of his eldest brother.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: years ago I was ruler of a country and the Dutch drove me out.
The country was small but nothing is too small for them to take.
They pretended to give it back to my nephew--may he burn! I ran
away or they would have killed me. I am nothing here--but I
remember. These white people out there can not run away and they
are very few. There is perhaps a little to loot. I would give it
to my men who followed me in my calamity because I am their chief
and my father was the chief of their fathers." I pointed out the
imprudence of this. He said: "The dead do not show the way." To
this I remarked that the ignorant do not give information. Tengga
kept quiet for a while, then said: "We must not touch them
 The Rescue |