| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: Are faintly stirred by later days
That would be well enough, she says,
If only people were more wise,
And grown-up children used their eyes.
The Dark House
Where a faint light shines alone,
Dwells a Demon I have known.
Most of you had better say
"The Dark House", and go your way.
Do not wonder if I stay.
For I know the Demon's eyes,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: the flies of the air, and thy food is transformed into an aerial
passion for flight, as thou springest across the pool, vaulting
toward the sky. Thine eyes have grown large and keen by peering
through the foam, and the feathered hook that can deceive thee must
be deftly tied and delicately cast. Thy tail and fins, by
ceaseless conflict with the rapids, have broadened and
strengthened, so that they can flash thy slender body like a living
arrow up the fall. As Lancelot among the knights, so art thou
among the fish, the plain-armoured hero, the sunburnt champion of
all the water-folk.
Every morning and evening, Greygown and I would go out for
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: overflowing with the late rains, overhung by low stooping willows.
Across this brook a plank is thrown, and over this plank Adam Bede
is passing with his undoubting step, followed close by Gyp with
the basket; evidently making his way to the thatched house, with a
stack of timber by the side of it, about twenty yards up the
opposite slope.
The door of the house is open, and an elderly woman is looking
out; but she is not placidly contemplating the evening sunshine;
she has been watching with dim eyes the gradually enlarging speck
which for the last few minutes she has been quite sure is her
darling son Adam. Lisbeth Bede loves her son with the love of a
Adam Bede |
