| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken: He lies outstretched on the yellow wind-worn sands
Reaching his lazy hands
Among the golden grains and sea-white shells . . .
'One white rose . . . or is it pink, to-day?'
They pause and smile, not caring what they say,
If only they may talk.
The crowd flows past them like dividing waters.
Dreaming they stand, dreaming they walk.
'Pink,--to-day!'--Face turns to dream-bright face,
Green leaves rise round them, sunshine settles upon them,
Water, in drops of silver, falls from the rose.
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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 The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: marvellous sunset city shewed clearly that they did not wish Carter
to reach it, and it was doubtful how they would regard a guest
whose object was to see them and plead before them. No man had
ever found Kadath in the past, and it might be just as well if
none ever found it in the future. Such rumours as were told about
that onyx castle of the Great Ones were not by any means reassuring.
Having thanked the orchid-crowned High-Priest, Carter left the
temple and sought out the bazaar of the sheep-butchers, where
the old chief of Celephais' cats dwelt sleek and contented. That
grey and dignified being was sunning himself on the onyx pavement,
and extended a languid paw as his caller approached. But when
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