| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: "The `Book of Annandale', a splendid poem included in this collection,
is one of the most moving emotional narratives found in modern poetry."
-- ~Review of Reviews~.
". . . His handling of Greek themes reveals him as
a lyrical poet of inimitable charm and skill." -- ~Reedy's Mirror~.
"A poem that must endure; if things that deserve long life get it."
-- ~N. Y. Evening Sun~.
"Wherever you hear people who know speak of American poets . . .
they assume that you take the genius and place of Edwin Arlington Robinson
as granted. . . . A man with something to say that has value and beauty.
His thought is deep and his ideas are high and stimulating."
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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 Burning Daylight by Jack London: where it thawed into water. The meal finished, Kama replenished
the fire, cut more wood for the morning, and returned to the
spruce bough bed and his harness-mending. Daylight cut up
generous chunks of bacon and dropped them in the pot of bubbling
beans. The moccasins of both men were wet, and this in spite of
the intense cold; so when there was no further need for them to
leave the oasis of spruce boughs, they took off their moccasins
and hung them on short sticks to dry before the fire, turning
them about from time to time. When the beans were finally
cooked, Daylight ran part of them into a bag of flour-sacking a
foot and a half long and three inches in diameter. This he then
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