The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: leave it pending. We are both Scots besides, and I suspect both
rather Scotty Scots; my own Scotchness tends to intermittency, but
is at times erisypelitous - if that be rightly spelt. Lastly, I
have gathered we had both made our stages in the metropolis of the
winds: our Virgil's 'grey metropolis,' and I count that a lasting
bond. No place so brands a man.
Finally, I feel it a sort of duty to you to report progress. This
may be an error, but I believed I detected your hand in an article
- it may be an illusion, it may have been by one of those
industrious insects who catch up and reproduce the handling of each
emergent man - but I'll still hope it was yours - and hope it may
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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 Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale: and the continuation is indented two spaces. Also, some obvious errors
may have been corrected.]
Flame and Shadow
By Sara Teasdale
Author of "Rivers to the Sea", "Love Songs", etc.
To E.
"Recois la flamme ou l'ombre
De tous mes jours."
Contents
I
Blue Squills
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