| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: mere outward of things, and feel pity, what pity can be given save
that of scorn?
I write this account of the mode of my being transferred here
simply that it should be realised how hard it has been for me to
get anything out of my punishment but bitterness and despair. I
have, however, to do it, and now and then I have moments of
submission and acceptance. All the spring may be hidden in the
single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy
that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns. So perhaps
whatever beauty of life still remains to me is contained in some
moment of surrender, abasement, and humiliation. I can, at any
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: of Eden!''
I looked to the southward. Certainly there is nowhere
where there is not something!
He gazed over the truly azure and beauteous sea, and
the air blew soft and cool upon our foreheads, and the
fragrance which came to us from land seemed new. ``Would
you not look for the halcyons? Trinidad! Holy Island!
We approach, I hold, the Holy Mountain of the World.
And hark to me, Juan Lepe, make vow that if it be permitted
I will found there an abbey whence shall arise perpetual
orison for the souls of our first parents!''
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: Myles?" asked Wilkes.
Myles hesitated a moment. "To-morrow," said he, grimly.
Several of the lads whistled softly.
Gascoyne was prepared for an early opening of the war, but
perhaps not for such an early opening as this. "By 'r Lady,
Myles, thou art hungry for brawling," said he.
CHAPTER 13
After the first excitement of meeting, discussing, and deciding
had passed, Myles began to feel the weight of the load he had so
boldly taken upon himself. He began to reckon what a serious
thing it was for him to stand as a single champion against the
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