| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: farewell to wife and daughter. 'For,' said he, 'then, at the
latest, you must ride with me.'
I dare not dwell upon the hours that followed: they fled all
too fast; and presently the moon out-topped the eastern
range, and my father and Mr. Aspinwall set forth, side by
side, on their nocturnal journey. My mother, though still
bearing an heroic countenance, had hastened to shut herself
in her apartment, thenceforward solitary; and I, alone in the
dark house, and consumed by grief and apprehension, made
haste to saddle my Indian pony, to ride up to the corner of
the mountain, and to enjoy one farewell sight of my departing
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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: Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen;
But in them it were a wonder.
So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.
Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
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