The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: cage for a week or two."
"And my mother?"
"We'll send to her to-morrow by daybreak. Come, a stirrup cup to
start with, hot and hot. Now, boots, cloaks, swords, a deep pull
and a warm one, and away!"
And the jolly old man bustled them out of the house and into their
saddles, under the broad bright winter's moon.
"You must make your pace, lads, or the moon will be down before you
are over the moors." And so away they went.
Neither of them spoke for many a mile. Amyas, because his mind was
fixed firmly on the one object of saving the honor of his house;
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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 Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare: Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.
So they lov'd, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.
Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen;
But in them it were a wonder.
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