| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson: As sune's I saw,
An' being still a neophite
Gaed straucht awa'.
Anither course I now begin,
The weeg I'll cairry for my sin,
The court my voice shall echo in,
An' - wha can tell? -
Some ither day I may be yin
O' you mysel'.
THE RELIC TAKEN, WHAT AVAILS THE SHRINE?
THE relic taken, what avails the shrine?
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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 Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: was--Miss Nora Darling, Detroit, Michigan--in the neatest of
little round letters, under date of the previous day's arrivals.
"Is Miss Darling in?" asked McWilliams of the half-grown son of
the landlady who served in lieu of clerk and porter.
"Nope! Went out a little while ago. Said to tell anybody to wait
that asked for her."
Mac nodded, relieved to find that duty had postponed itself long
enough for him to pursue the friendly smile that had not been
wasted on him a few seconds before. He strolled out to the porch
and decided at once that he needed a cigar more than anything
else on earth. He was helped to a realization of his need by
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