| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: And hungrily as men eat bread,
Loved the scented nights of June.
The rest may die -- but is there not
Some shining strange escape for me
Who sought in Beauty the bright wine
Of immortality?
In a Cuban Garden
Hibiscus flowers are cups of fire,
(Love me, my lover, life will not stay)
The bright poinsettia shakes in the wind,
A scarlet leaf is blowing away.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: cap, which fitted me but ill, fell off. He picked it up and gave
it to me and our eyes met, my face being somewhat in the shadow.
Next instant I was hobbling on, but looking back, I saw the
Tlascalan staring after us with a puzzled air, like that of a man
who is not sure of the witness of his senses.
'He knows me,' I said to Otomie, 'and presently when he has found
his wits, he will follow us.'
'On, on!' answered Otomie; 'round yonder corner are aloe bushes
where we may hide.'
'I am spent, I can no more;' and again I began to fall.
Then Otomie caught me as I fell, and of a sudden she put out her
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: Until they read in Folly's eyes
The wisdom that escapes the schools,
That bids the sage revise his rules
By light of some Sabean girl!
NEWS FROM BABYLON
"Archaeologists have discovered a love-letter among the ruins
of Babylon." --Newspaper report.
The world hath just one tale to tell, and it is very old,
A little tale--a simple tale--a tale that's easy told:
"There was a youth in Babylon who greatly loved a
maid!"
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