| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Wars and women who mourn --
I think of the mother who bore me
And thank her that I was born.
By the Sea
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The Unchanging
Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing
From the immense blue circle of the sea,
And the soft thunder where long waves whiten --
These were the same for Sappho as for me.
Two thousand years -- much has gone by forever,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Door in the Wall, et. al. by H. G. Wells: where the gorge had once come out. But the rest of his story of
mischances is lost to me, save that I know of his evil death after
several years. Poor stray from that remoteness! The stream that
had once made the gorge now bursts from the mouth of a rocky cave,
and the legend his poor, ill-told story set going developed into
the legend of a race of blind men somewhere "over there" one may
still hear to-day.
And amidst the little population of that now isolated and
forgotten valley the disease ran its course. The old became
groping, the young saw but dimly, and the children that were born
to them never saw at all. But life was very easy in that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: (well-known and intelligent half-castes) came to Blacklock with a
complaint. The Scanlon house stood on the hither side of the
Tamasese breastwork, just inside the newly accepted territory, and
within easy range of the firm. Armed men, to the number of a
hundred, had issued from Mulinuu, had "taken charge" of the house,
had pointed a gun at Scanlon's head, and had twice "threatened to
kill" his pigs. I hear elsewhere of some effects (GEGENSTANDE)
removed. At the best a very pale atrocity, though we shall find
the word employed. Germans declare besides that Scanlon was no
American subject; they declare the point had been decided by court-
martial in 1875; that Blacklock had the decision in the consular
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