| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: that they will be better cared for and educated here if you are still
alive, although absent from them; for your friends will take care of them?
Do you fancy that if you are an inhabitant of Thessaly they will take care
of them, and if you are an inhabitant of the other world that they will not
take care of them? Nay; but if they who call themselves friends are good
for anything, they will--to be sure they will.
'Listen, then, Socrates, to us who have brought you up. Think not of life
and children first, and of justice afterwards, but of justice first, that
you may be justified before the princes of the world below. For neither
will you nor any that belong to you be happier or holier or juster in this
life, or happier in another, if you do as Crito bids. Now you depart in
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Drawn within a magic circle;
And the image had this meaning:
"Naked lies your heart before me,
To your naked heart I whisper!"
Thus it was that Hiawatha,
In his wisdom, taught the people
All the mysteries of painting,
All the art of Picture-Writing,
On the smooth bark of the birch-tree,
On the white skin of the reindeer,
On the grave-posts of the village.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: of any other living writer." -- ~Brooklyn Daily Eagle~.
"The `Book of Annandale', a splendid poem included in this collection,
is one of the most moving emotional narratives found in modern poetry."
-- ~Review of Reviews~.
". . . His handling of Greek themes reveals him as
a lyrical poet of inimitable charm and skill." -- ~Reedy's Mirror~.
"A poem that must endure; if things that deserve long life get it."
-- ~N. Y. Evening Sun~.
"Wherever you hear people who know speak of American poets . . .
they assume that you take the genius and place of Edwin Arlington Robinson
as granted. . . . A man with something to say that has value and beauty.
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