| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling: That started as a boiler-whelp -- when steam and he were low.
I mind the time we used to serve a broken pipe wi' tow.
Ten pound was all the pressure then -- Eh! Eh! -- a man wad drive;
An' here, our workin' gauges give one hunder fifty-five!
We're creepin' on wi' each new rig -- less weight an' larger power:
There'll be the loco-boiler next an' thirty knots an hour!
Thirty an' more. What I ha' seen since ocean-steam began
Leaves me no doot for the machine: but what about the man?
The man that counts, wi' all his runs, one million mile o' sea:
Four time the span from earth to moon. . . . How far, O Lord, from Thee?
That wast beside him night an' day. Ye mind my first typhoon?
Verses 1889-1896 |
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 Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: hearing; I don't reckon she could see well through all the veils.
Now, don't get impatient, Mr. Kent; I'm getting to my point - that
woman sitting next to me in the police court was the widow Brewster."
"What!" Kent laughed unbelievingly. "Oh, come, you are mistaken."
"I am not, sir." Mrs. Sylvester spoke with conviction. "Now, why
does Mrs. Brewster declare at the coroner's inquest that she only
heard of the Turnbull tragedy from the McIntyre twins on their
return home?"
"You must be mistaken," argued Kent.
"Why, you admit yourself that the woman was so swathed in veils
that you could not see her face."
The Red Seal |
