The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson: V
To My Name-child
1
Some day soon this rhyming volume, if you learn with proper speed,
Little Louis Sanchez, will be given you to read.
Then you shall discover, that your name was printed down
By the English printers, long before, in London town.
In the great and busy city where the East and West are met,
All the little letters did the English printer set;
While you thought of nothing, and were still too young to play,
Foreign people thought of you in places far away.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
JDG 13:16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou
detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt
offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he
was an angel of the LORD.
JDG 13:17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name,
that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
JDG 13:18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus
after my name, seeing it is secret?
JDG 13:19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it
upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and
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