| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: The Prince to win her!'
'Then follow me, the Prince,'
I answered, 'each be hero in his turn!
Seven and yet one, like shadows in a dream.--
Heroic seems our Princess as required--
But something made to suit with Time and place,
A Gothic ruin and a Grecian house,
A talk of college and of ladies' rights,
A feudal knight in silken masquerade,
And, yonder, shrieks and strange experiments
For which the good Sir Ralph had burnt them all--
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: Troy, and sack the palaces of Ilium; then my son shall set me
free from thraldom, and I shall hear the tale of Theseus'
fame. Yet beyond that I see new sorrows; but I can bear them
as I have borne the past.'
Then she kissed Theseus, and wept over him; and went into the
temple, and Theseus saw her no more.
PART II - HOW THESEUS SLEW THE DEVOURERS OF MEN
SO Theseus stood there alone, with his mind full of many
hopes. And first he thought of going down to the harbour and
hiring a swift ship, and sailing across the bay to Athens;
but even that seemed too slow for him, and he longed for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: My bright mane for ever
Shall shine like the gold,
As I guard o'er the fold.'
SPRING
Sound the flute!
Now it's mute!
Birds delight,
Day and night,
Nightingale,
In the dale,
Lark in sky, -
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
