| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Trinity that even you
Rate higher than you rate yourselves;
It pays, it flatters, and it's new.
"And though your very flesh and blood
Be what your Eagle eats and drinks,
You'll praise him for the best of birds,
Not knowing what the Eagle thinks.
"The power is yours, but not the sight;
You see not upon what you tread;
You have the ages for your guide,
But not the wisdom to be led.
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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 Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: For three days they blundered around in the hills before they
gave it up. The first night, about dusk, the pursuers were
without knowing it so warm that one of the bandits lay with his
rifle on a rock rim not a stone's throw above them as they wound
through a little ravine. But Collins got no glimpse of the
robbers. At last he reluctantly gave the word to turn back.
Probably the men he wanted had already slipped down to the plains
and across to Mexico. If not, they might play hide and seek with
him a month in the recesses of these unknown mountains.
Next morning the sheriff struck a telephone wire, tapped it, got
Sabin on the line, told him of his failure and that he was
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