| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain: States, and you couldn't any more prevent it than you
can prevent lightning."
"My lan', Mars Tom, I never knowed dey was so
much TO de beas'. No, sir, I never had no idea of it,
and dat's de fac'."
"There's more to him, by a long sight, than there
is to any other cretur, man or beast, in proportion to
size. He's the interestingest of them all. People have
so much to say about an ant's strength, and an ele-
phant's, and a locomotive's. Shucks, they don't begin
with a flea. He can lift two or three hundred times his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: gracious looks from him.
A woman of brilliance and audacity, accompanied by a mere boy,
came into the place and took seats near them.
At once Pete sprang to his feet, his face beaming with glad surprise.
"By Gawd, there's Nellie," he cried.
He went over to the table and held out an eager hand to the woman.
"Why, hello, Pete, me boy, how are you," said she, giving him her fingers.
Maggie took instant note of the woman. She perceived that her
black dress fitted her to perfection. Her linen collar and cuffs
were spotless. Tan gloves were stretched over her well-shaped
hands. A hat of a prevailing fashion perched jauntily upon her
 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Love Songs by Sara Teasdale: Two italicized lines are marked by asterisks (*).
Lines longer than 78 characters are broken,
and the continuation is indented two spaces.]
[This etext was transcribed from a 1918 reprinting of the 1917 edition,
which was the original. It is interesting that some of those poems
included from earlier volumes have been slightly changed in this book.]
Love Songs
By Sara Teasdale
Author of "Rivers to the Sea", "Helen of Troy and Other Poems", Etc.
To E.
I have remembered beauty in the night,
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