| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: My heart is at rest within my breast,
And everything else is still.
'Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,
And the dews of night arise;
Come, come, leave off play, and let us away,
Till the morning appears in the skies.'
'No, no, let us play, for it is yet day,
And we cannot go to sleep;
Besides, in the sky the little birds fly,
And the hills are all covered with sheep.'
'Well, well, go and play till the light fades away,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: O beautiful star with the crimson mouth!
O moon with the brows of gold!
O ship that shakes on the desolate sea!
O ship with the wet, white sail!
Put in, put in, to the port to me!
For my love and I would go
To the land where the daffodils blow
In the heart of a violet dale!
O ship that shakes on the desolate sea!
O ship with the wet, white sail!
O rapturous bird with the low, sweet note!
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: stops to recruit himself and contemplate the view by fountain side and
shady nook, as though his object were to court each gentle zephyr. So
in farm work; there is a vast difference as regards performance
between those who do it not, but seek excuse for idleness and are
suffered to be listless. Thus, between good honest work and base
neglect there is as great a difference as there is between--what shall
I say?--why, work and idleness.[26] The gardeners, look, are hoeing
vines to keep them clean and free of weeds; but they hoe so sorrily
that the loose stuff grows ranker and more plentiful. Can you call
that[27] anything but idleness?
[25] Lit. "per 200 stades."
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