| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: "Did you stop yonder to ponder the sea?"
"I was pondering 'Lemorne vs. Huell.'"
He looked at me earnestly, and then gave a tug at the bridle, for
his steed was inclined to make a crude repast from the bushes.
"How was it that I did not detect you at once?" he continued.
"My apparel is Waterbury apparel."
"Ah!"
We walked up the road slowly till we came to the end of it; then
I stopped for him to understand that I thought it time for him to
leave me. He sprang into the saddle.
"Give us good-by!" he said, bringing his horse close to me.
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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 Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: which sat a beautiful damsel, more lovely than the fancy of man
could picture. Beside the damsels marched a guard, each man clad
in silver armor, and each bearing a drawn sword that flashed in
the brightening day more keenly than the lightning. So they all
came pouring forth from the cavern until it seemed as though the
whole woods below were filled with the wealth and the beauty of
King Solomon's day--and then, last of all, came the three old
men.
"In the name of the red Aldebaran," said he who had bidden the
rock to open, "I command thee to become closed." Again, creaking
and groaning, the rock shut as it had opened--like a door--and
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