| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Which in life gives only sorrow.
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JOY.
A DRAGON-FLY with beauteous wing
Is hov'ring o'er a silv'ry spring;
I watch its motions with delight,--
Now dark its colours seem, now bright;
Chameleon-like appear, now blue,
Now red, and now of greenish hue.
Would it would come still nearer me,
That I its tints might better see
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: neighbouring street.
To Derues there was now one pressing and immediate problem to be
solved--how to keep Buisson-Souef as his own without paying for
it? To one less sanguine, less daring, less impudent and
desperate in his need, the problem would have appeared insoluble.
But that was by no means the view of the cheery and resourceful
grocer. He had a solution ready, well thought out and bearing to
his mind the stamp of probability. He would make a
fictitious payment of the purchase-money to Mme. de Lamotte. She
would then disappear, taking her son with her. Her indiscretion
in having been the mistress of de Lamotte before she became his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Complete Poems of Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In our ash-tree, O my friend,
My darling, make thy nest.
To thee, O Stork, I complain,
O Stork, to thee I impart
The thousand sorrows, the pain
And aching of my heart.
When thou away didst go,
Away from this tree of ours,
The withering winds did blow,
And dried up all the flowers.
Dark grew the brilliant sky,
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