| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: For some, untuck'd, descended her sheav'd hat,
Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside;
Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,
And, true to bondage, would not break from thence,
Though slackly braided in loose negligence.
A thousand favours from a maund she drew
Of amber, crystal, and of beaded jet,
Which one by one she in a river threw,
Upon whose weeping margent she was set;
Like usury applying wet to wet,
Or monarchs' hands, that lets not bounty fall
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: The songs that call for us to-night, they have called for men before us,
And the winds that blow the message, they have blown ten thousand years;
But this will end our wander-time, for we know the joy that waits us
In the strangeness of home-coming, and a faithful woman's eyes.
Come away! come away! there is nothing now to cheer us --
Nothing now to comfort us, but love's road home: --
Over there beyond the darkness there's a window gleams to greet us,
And a warm hearth waits for us within.
Come away! come away! -- or the roving-fiend will hold us,
And make us all to dwell with him to the end of human faring:
There are no men yet can leave him when his hands are clutched upon them,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Kenilworth by Walter Scott: many years, and to have time for the great work of repentance, I
would not go forward with you."
"Oh! thou shalt live as long as Methuselah," said Varney, "and
amass as much wealth as Solomon; and thou shalt repent so
devoutly, that thy repentance shall be more famous than thy
villainy--and that is a bold word. But for all this, Tressilian
must be looked after. Thy ruffian yonder is gone to dog him. It
concerns our fortunes, Anthony."
"Ay, ay," said Foster sullenly, "this it is to be leagued with
one who knows not even so much of Scripture, as that the labourer
is worthy of his hire. I must, as usual, take all the trouble
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