| 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: Through bush, through forest, o'er the lea;
Thou art invoked by all my lays;
Oh, come then, loved one, back to me!
1789.*
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BY THE RIVER.
FLOW on, ye lays so loved, so fair,
On to Oblivion's ocean flow!
May no rapt boy recall you e'er,
No maiden in her beauty's glow!
My love alone was then your theme,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: three-fourths of the States of the Union. Congress voted in favor
of such an amendment on January 31, 1865. Illinois, the
President's own State, adopted it on the very next day, and
though Mr. Lincoln did not live to see it a part of the
Constitution, Secretary Seward, on December 18, 1865, only a few
months after Mr. Lincoln's death, was able to make official
announcement that 29 States, constituting a majority of three-
fourths of the 36 States of the Union, had adopted it, and that
therefore it was the law of the land.
Jefferson Davis had issued a last appeal to "fire the southern
heart," but the situation at Richmond was becoming desperate
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: Jerusalem.
LUK 2:39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of
the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
LUK 2:40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with
wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
LUK 2:41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of
the passover.
LUK 2:42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem
after the custom of the feast.
LUK 2:43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the
child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew
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