| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: were standing.
The little girl caught the dress of one of the ladies, and came
pulling at her dress and bringing her across the ground to see the
stone chimney, and the little girl kept saying:
``Look, Mama! See, Mama! Isn't it a grand chimney? Won't it 'most
hold smoke?''
Bessie Bell stood still with her little hands--they were beginning
to be round pink little hands again, now--clasped in front of her
and wondered.
``See, Mama! Look, Mama!'' cried the little girl.
``Why does she say: Mama?'' asked Bessie Bell, because she just
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu: His timid future shrinking there alone,
Beneath her marriage-veil of mysteries.
LIFE
Children, ye have not lived, to you it seems
Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams,
Or carnival of careless joys that leap
About your hearts like billows on the deep
In flames of amber and of amethyst.
Children, ye have not lived, ye but exist
Till some resistless hour shall rise and move
Your hearts to wake and hunger after love,
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