| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: dispatch to his post, which was on the right flank of Argyle's
little army.
The retreat of Argyle had not passed unobserved by his watchful
enemy, who, occupying the superior ground, could mark every
circumstance which passed below. The movement of three or four
horsemen to the rear showed that those who retreated were men of
rank.
"They are going," said Dalgetty, "to put their horses out of
danger, like prudent cavaliers. Yonder goes Sir Duncan Campbell,
riding a brown bay gelding, which I had marked for my own second
charger."
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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 Songs of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: To men of larger reach;
Be ours the quest of a plain theme,
The piety of speech.
As monkish scribes from morning break
Toiled till the close of light,
Nor thought a day too long to make
One line or letter bright:
We also with an ardent mind,
Time, wealth, and fame forgot,
Our glory in our patience find
And skim, and skim the pot:
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