The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: I trembled, for I thought to see its dark deep fire --
But only a pinch of dust blew up in my face.
I almost gave my life long ago for a thing
That has gone to dust now, stinging my eyes --
It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.
The Long Hill
I must have passed the crest a while ago
And now I am going down --
Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know,
But the brambles were always catching the hem of my gown.
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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 Koran: letting their women live. Verily, he was of the despoilers.
And we wished to be gracious to those who were weakened in the
earth, and to make them models, and to make them the heirs; and to
establish for them in the earth; and to show Pharaoh and Haman and
their hosts what they had to beware of from them.
And we inspired the mother of Moses, 'Suckle him; and when thou
art afraid for him then throw him into the river, and fear not and
grieve not; verily, we are going to restore him to thee, and to make
him of the apostles!'
And Pharaoh's family picked him up that he might be for them a foe
and a grief; verily, Pharaoh and Haman and their hosts were sinners.
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