| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Collection of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: root of a very big fir tree.
"NOW, my dears," said old
Mrs. Rabbit one morning,
"you may go into the fields
or down the lane, but don't go
into Mr. McGregor's garden:
your Father had an accident
there; he was put in a pie by
Mrs. McGregor."
"NOW run along, and don't
get into mischief. I am
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: somewhat the air of a shrine. And it was, indeed, the casket of a
very precious jewel, for in the room to which it gives light lay, for
long years, the heroine of the sweet old ballad of 'Johnnie Faa' -
she who, at the call of the gipsies' songs, 'came tripping down the
stair, and all her maids before her.' Some people say the ballad has
no basis in fact, and have written, I believe, unanswerable papers to
the proof. But in the face of all that, the very look of that high
oriel window convinces the imagination, and we enter into all the
sorrows of the imprisoned dame. We conceive the burthen of the long,
lack-lustre days, when she leaned her sick head against the mullions,
and saw the burghers loafing in Maybole High Street, and the children
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: Nur. I, I, the Cords
Iuli. Ay me, what newes?
Why dost thou wring thy hands
Nur. A weladay, hee's dead, hee's dead,
We are vndone Lady, we are vndone.
Alacke the day, hee's gone, hee's kil'd, he's dead
Iul. Can heauen be so enuious?
Nur. Romeo can,
Though heauen cannot. O Romeo, Romeo.
Who euer would haue thought it Romeo
Iuli. What diuell art thou,
Romeo and Juliet |
