| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: Clear as grey sea-weed in the swell
Of a sunny shallow sea.
But you I never understood,
Your spirit's secret hides like gold
Sunk in a Spanish galleon
Ages ago in waters cold.
Nightfall
We will never walk again
As we used to walk at night,
Watching our shadows lengthen
Under the gold street-light
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: like it. Think of it, my dear, both your father and mother here with us
tonight."
Lute shivered. The lassitude was gone, and she was her natural self again,
vibrant with the instinctive fear of things unseen. And it was offensive to
her mind that, real or illusion, the presence or the memorized existences of
her father and mother should he touched by these two persons who were
practically strangers--Mrs. Grantly, unhealthy and morbid, and Mr. Barton,
stolid and stupid with a grossness both of the flesh and the spirit. And it
further seemed a trespass that these strangers should thus enter into the
intimacy between her and Chris.
She could hear the steps of her uncle approaching, and the situation flashed
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