| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: To the white heaven as flame that has its will.
I go not bitterly, not dumb with pain,
RIVERS TO THE SEA
Not broken by the ache of love--I go
As one grown tired lies down and hopes to sleep.
Yet they shall say: "It was for Cercolas;
She died because she could not bear her love."
They shall remember how we used to walk
Here on the cliff beneath the oleanders
In the long limpid twilight of the spring,
Looking toward Lemnos, where the amber sky
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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 White Moll by Frank L. Packard: one flight, and then the other, they went, resting at every few
steps, leaning back against the wall, black shadows that merged
with the blackness around them, the flashlight used only when
necessity compelled it, lest its gleam might attract the attention
of some other occupant of the house. And at times Gypsy Nan's head
lay cheek to Rhoda Gray's, and the other's body grew limp and
became a great weight, so heavy that it seemed she could no longer
support it.
They gained the street door, hung there tensely for a moment to
make sure they were not observed by any chance passer-by, then
stepped out on the sidewalk. Gypsy Nan spoke then:
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