| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Heap O' Livin' by Edgar A. Guest: alone.
Little Master Mischievous, opening every door,
Spilling books and papers round about the parlor
floor,
Scratching all the tables and marring all the
chairs,
Climbing where you shouldn't climb and tum-
bling down the stairs.
How'd you get the ink well? We can never
guess.
Now the rug is ruined; so's your little dress.
 A Heap O' Livin' |
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: their father was a righteous man, and their Lord desired that they
should reach puberty, and then take out their treasure as a mercy from
thy Lord; and I did it not on my own bidding. That is the
interpretation of what thou couldst not have patience with.'
And they will ask thee about DHU 'I Qarnain, say, 'I will recite
to you a mention of him; verily, we stablished for him in the earth,
and we gave him a way to everything; and he followed a way until
when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it setting in a black
muddy spring and he found thereat a people.'
We said, 'O DHU 'l Qarnain! thou mayest either torment these people,
or treat them well.' Said he, 'As for him who does wrong, I will
 The Koran |