| 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: Ah, and she also herself, the best of her sisters, is driven
Out of her native land; but her own misfortunes forgetting,
Others she seeks to console, and, though helpless, is also most helpful.
Great are the woes and distress which over the earth's face are brooding,
But may happiness not be evoked from out of this sorrow?
May not I, in the arms of my bride, the wife I have chosen,
Even rejoice at the war, as you at the great conflagration?"
Then replied the father, and open'd his mouth with importance:--
"Strangely indeed, my son, has your tongue been suddenly loosen'd,
Which for years has stuck in your mouth, and moved there but rarely
I to-day must experience that which threatens each father:
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Lily's great relief. She could not imagine Johnny's
own father haling him away to state prison and
the stern Arm of Justice. She stood the fire of
bewildered questions in the best and safest fashion.
She wept bitterly, and her tears were not assumed.
Poor little Lily was all of a sudden crushed under
the weight of facts. There was Aunt Janet, she had
no doubt, killed by her own nephew, and she was
hiding the guilty murderer. She had visions of
state prison for herself. She watched fearfully while
the two men bent over the prostrate woman, who
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