| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: is sowing; be careful to pick up every one of the seeds, or else
you will repent it." The birds paid no heed to the Swallow's
words, and by and by the hemp grew up and was made into cord, and
of the cords nets were made, and many a bird that had despised the
Swallow's advice was caught in nets made out of that very hemp.
"What did I tell you?" said the Swallow.
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
The Frogs Desiring a King
The Frogs were living as happy as could be in a marshy swamp
that just suited them; they went splashing about caring for nobody
and nobody troubling with them. But some of them thought that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: as either of us (Vindex stood five feet four in his high-heeled
shoes), and smote him clean over the quay into the mud, because he
said that there was a prettier maid in Barnstaple (your worship
will forgive my speaking of such toys, to which my fidelity compels
me) than ever Bideford could show; and then offered to do the same
to any man who dare say that Mistress Rose Salterne, his worship
the mayor's daughter, was not the fairest lass in all Devon."
"Eh? Say that over again, my good sir," quoth Sir Richard, who had
thus arrived, as we have seen, at the second count of the
indictment. "I say, good sir, whence dost thou hear all these
pretty stories?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ringing far across the water.
From the white sand of the bottom
Up he rose with angry gesture,
Quivering in each nerve and fibre,
Clashing all his plates of armor,
Gleaming bright with all his war-paint;
In his wrath he darted upward,
Flashing leaped into the sunshine,
Opened his great jaws, and swallowed
Both canoe and Hiawatha.
Down into that darksome cavern
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