| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Oh youth, I was a brook indeed;
But lately
My bed they've deepen'd, and my speed
Swell'd greatly,
That I may haste to yonder mill.
And so I'm full and never still.
YOUTH.
The mill thou seekest in a mood
Contented,
And know'st not how my youthful blood
'S tormented.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: little bell ring somewhere in the silence, and in a moment the
Cardinal stood up.
'Follow me!' he said, with a strange flash of his keen eyes.
Astonished, I stood aside while he passed to the screen; then I
followed him. Outside the first door, which stood open, we found
eight or nine persons--pages, a monk, the major-domo, and several
guards waiting like mutes. These signed to me to precede them
and fell in behind us, and in that order we passed through the
first room and the second, where the clerks stood with bent heads
to receive us. The last door, the door of the ante-chamber, flew
open as we approached, voices cried, 'Room! Room for his
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