The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Koran: They shall say, 'Nay, for you too is there no welcome! it was ye who
prepared it beforehand for us, and an ill resting-place it is!'
They shall say, 'Our Lord! whoso prepared this beforehand for us,
give him double torment in the fire!' And they shall say, 'What ails
us that we do not see men whom we used to think amongst the wicked?
whom we used to take for mockery? have our eyes escaped them?'
Verily, that is the truth; the contention of the people of the fire.
Say, 'I am only a warner; and there is no god but God, the one,
the victorious, the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what is
between the two, the mighty, the forgiving!'
Say, 'It is a grand story, and yet ye turn from it!' I had no
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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 Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson: And a frozen wind that skims the shoal where it shakes the dead black water;
There's a moan across the lowland and a wailing through the woodland
Of a dirge that sings to send us back to the arms of those that love us.
There is nothing left but ashes now where the crimson chills of autumn
Put off the summer's languor with a touch that made us glad
For the glory that is gone from us, with a flight we cannot follow,
To the slopes of other valleys and the sounds of other shores.
Come away! come away! you can hear them calling, calling,
Calling us to come to them, and roam no more.
Over there beyond the ridges and the land that lies between us,
There's an old song calling us to come!
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