| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll: "Sae I gar'd them tak' it awa'."
"O ever alack that ye sent it back,
It was written sae clerkly and well!
Now the message it brought, and the boon that it sought,
I must even say it mysel'."
Then up and spake the popinjay,
Sae wisely counselled he.
"Now say it in the proper way:
Gae doon upon thy knee!"
The lover he turned baith red and pale,
Went doon upon his knee:
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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 Octopus by Frank Norris: room.
"Anywhere between half-past six and seven," the other answered,
adding, "Very often he comes back in the evening."
And the man was seventy years old. Presley could not repress a
murmur of astonishment. Not only mentally, then, was the
President of the P. and S. W. a giant. Seventy years of age and
still at his post, holding there with the energy, with a
concentration of purpose that would have wrecked the health and
impaired the mind of many men in the prime of their manhood.
But the next instant Presley set his teeth.
"It is an ogre's vitality," he said to himself. "Just so is the
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