| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the Romans, together with the latter's son, were
entrenched with their forces, sixty thousand strong.
Before sunrise on a May morning in the year 1264,
the barons' army set out from its camp at Fletching,
nine miles from Lewes, and, marching through dense
forests, reached a point two miles from the city, un-
observed.
From here they ascended the great ridge of the hills
up the valley Combe, the projecting shoulder of the
Downs covering their march from the town. The King's
party, however, had no suspicion that an attack was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: Not many moons, King Uther died himself,
Moaning and wailing for an heir to rule
After him, lest the realm should go to wrack.
And that same night, the night of the new year,
By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born, and all as soon as born
Delivered at a secret postern-gate
To Merlin, to be holden far apart
Until his hour should come; because the lords
Of that fierce day were as the lords of this,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Samuel 19: 14 (19:15) And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent unto the king: 'Return thou, and all thy servants.'
2_Samuel 19: 15 (19:16) So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
2_Samuel 19: 16 (19:17) And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, made haste and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
2_Samuel 19: 17 (19:18) And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him. And they rushed into the Jordan before the king.
2_Samuel 19: 18 (19:19) And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would go over the Jordan.
2_Samuel 19: 19 (19:20) And he said unto the king: 'Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did iniquitously the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
2_Samuel 19: 20 (19:21) For thy servant doth know that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.'
2_Samuel 19: 21 (19:22) But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said: 'Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?'
The Tanach |
