| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: are taken badly that way, apply to the South Seas. I could send
you some, I believe, anyway, only none of it is thoroughly ripe.
If kept back the volume of ballads, I'll soon make it a respectable
size if this fit continue. By the next mail you may expect some
more WRECKER, or I shall be displeased. Probably no more than a
chapter, however, for it is a hard one, and I am denuded of my
proofs, my collaborator having walked away with them to England;
hence some trouble in catching the just note.
I am a mere farmer: my talk, which would scarce interest you on
Broadway, is all of fuafua and tuitui, and black boys, and planting
and weeding, and axes and cutlasses; my hands are covered with
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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: Cut the leafy swing asunder,
Cut in twain the twisted grape-vines,
And Nokomis fell affrighted
Downward through the evening twilight,
On the Muskoday, the meadow,
On the prairie full of blossoms.
"See! a star falls!" said the people;
"From the sky a star is falling!"
There among the ferns and mosses,
There among the prairie lilies,
On the Muskoday, the meadow,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: Agis and Cleomenes. For they, being desirous also to raise the
people, and to restore the noble and just form of government,
now long fallen into disuse, incurred the hatred of the rich and
powerful, who could not endure to be deprived of the selfish
enjoyments to which they were accustomed. These were not indeed
brothers by nature, as the two Romans, but they had a kind of
brotherly resemblance in their actions and designs, which took a
rise from such beginnings and occasions as I am now about to
relate.
When the love of gold and silver had once gained admittance into
the Lacedaemonian commonwealth, it was quickly followed by
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