| 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: Then you can return and not be afraid.
But if you remember, then turn away forever
To the plains and the prairies where pools are far apart,
There you will not come at dusk on closing water lilies,
And the shadow of mountains will not fall on your heart.
"Did You Never Know?"
Did you never know, long ago, how much you loved me --
That your love would never lessen and never go?
You were young then, proud and fresh-hearted,
You were too young to know.
Fate is a wind, and red leaves fly before it
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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 Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: did not forget the mixed blood and marine pursuits of the cult-members
in Louisiana, and would not be surprised to learn of secret methods
and rites and beliefs. Legrasse and his men, it is true, have
been let alone; but in Norway a certain seaman who saw things
is dead. Might not the deeper inquiries of my uncle after encountering
the sculptor's data have come to sinister ears?. I think Professor
Angell died because he knew too much, or because he was likely
to learn too much. Whether I shall go as he did remains to be
seen, for I have learned much now.
III. The Madness from the
Sea
Call of Cthulhu |
