| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: would be King in his place. One day he called his son
to his side and said to him:
"Our island now seems peaceful enough, Inga, and we
are happy and prosperous, but I cannot forget those
terrible people of Regos and Coregos. My constant fear
is that they will send a fleet of boats to search for
those of their race whom we defeated many years ago,
and whom the sea afterwards destroyed. If the warriors
come in great numbers we may be unable to oppose them,
for my people are little trained to fighting at best;
they surely would cause us much injury and suffering."
 Rinkitink In Oz |
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 Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: from the fenced places; when our women walked alone to draw
water - back, back, back came the Curse of the Chalk, Grey
Shepherd, Feet-in-the-Night - The Beast, The Beast, The Beast!
'He laughed at our little brittle arrows and our poor blunt
spears. He learned to run in under the stroke of the hammer. I
think he knew when there was a flaw in the flint. Often it does not
show till you bring it down on his snout. Then - Pouf! - the false
flint falls all to flinders, and you are left with the hammer-handle
in your fist, and his teeth in your flank! I have felt them. At
evening, too, in the dew, or when it has misted and rained, your
spear-head lashings slack off, though you have kept them beneath
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