| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: Dark Spirit! ended THEN?
[The worthy and learned clergyman by whom this species of hymn
has been translated desires, that, for fear of misconception, we
should warn the reader to recollect that it is composed by a
heathen, to whom the real causes of moral and physical evil are
unknown, and who views their predominance in the system of the
universe as all must view that appalling fact who have not the
benefit of the Christian revelation. On our own part, we beg to
add, that we understand the style of the translator is more
paraphrastic than can be approved by those who are acquainted
with the singularly curious original. The translator seems to
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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 Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "There is only one thing that I can harbor against you,"
continued Prince Ludwig, "and that is that in a single in-
stance you deceived me, for an hour before the coronation
you told me that you were a Rubinroth."
"I told you, prince," corrected Barney, "that the royal
blood of Rubinroth flowed in my veins, and so it does. I
am the son of the runaway Princess Victoria of Lutha."
Both Leopold and Ludwig looked their surprise, and to
the king's eyes came a sudden look of fear. With the royal
blood in his veins, what was there to prevent this popular
hero from some day striving for the throne he had once re-
The Mad King |
