| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: exclaimed.
The footsteps stopped at last and the low sobs came
once more from the bed. The old woman crouched down on
a stone beside the log wall and drew the shawl about
her shoulders.
A rooster crowed for midnight. Still the restless
thing inside was stirring. Nance rose uneasily.
Her lantern was still burning in her storehouse under
the cliff. The wick might eat so low it would explode.
She had heard that such things happened to lamps. It
was foolish to have left it burning, anyhow.
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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: morning train from that town and save almost a day.
So hour after hour they plodded on, the prisoner in front,
O'Connor in the center, and Frank Hardman bringing up the rear.
It was an Arizona night of countless stars, with that peculiar
soft, velvety atmosphere that belongs to no other land or time.
In the distance the jagged, violet line of mountains rose in
silhouette against a sky not many shades lighter, while nearer
the cool moonlight flooded a land grown magical under its divine
touch.
The ranger rode with a limp ease that made for rest, his body
shifting now and again in the saddle, so as to change the weight
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