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: old sweetheart, if she be not too engrossed with higher matters.
Do you know where the road crosses the burn under Glencorse Church?
Go there, and say a prayer for me: MORITURUS SALUTAT. See that
it's a sunny day; I would like it to be a Sunday, but that's not
possible in the premises; and stand on the right-hand bank just
where the road goes down into the water, and shut your eyes, and if
I don't appear to you! well, it can't be helped, and will be
extremely funny.
I have no concern here but to work and to keep an eye on this
distracted people. I live just now wholly alone in an upper room
of my house, because the whole family are down with influenza, bar
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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 Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: For the angels have the keeping of the pathway of the dead.
Lemon Pie
The world is full of gladness,
There are joys of many kinds,
There's a cure for every sadness,
That each troubled mortal finds.
And my little cares grow lighter
And I cease to fret and sigh,
And my eyes with joy grow brighter
When she makes a lemon pie.
When the bronze is on the filling
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