The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Poems of William Blake by William Blake: Revives the milked cow, & tames the fire-breathing steed.
But Thel is like a faint cloud kindled at the rising sun:
I vanish from my pearly throne, and who shall find my place.
Queen of the vales the Lily answered, ask the tender cloud,
And it shall tell thee why it glitters in the morning sky.
And why it scatters its bright beauty thro the humid air.
Descend O little cloud & hover before the eyes of Thel.
The Cloud descended and the Lily bowd her modest head:
And went to mind her numerous charge among the verdant grass.
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O little Cloud the virgin said, I charge thee to tell me
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: substance to this:--That she was awaked by the noise which the
ruffians made in breaking into the house, and by the resistance
made by one or two of the servants, which was soon overpowered;
that, dressing herself hastily, she ran downstairs, and having
seen, in the scuffle, Westburnflat's vizard drop off, imprudently
named him by his name, and besought him for mercy; that the
ruffian instantly stopped her mouth, dragged her from the house,
and placed her on horseback, behind one of his associates.
"I'll break the accursed neck of him," said Hobbie, "if there
werena another Graeme in the land but himsell!"
She proceeded to say, that she was carried southward along with
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