| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale: Posilipo kneels and looks in the burnished sea,
Naples crowds her million roofs close as close can be;
Round about the mountain's crest a flag of smoke is hung--
Oh when God made Italy he was gay and young!
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Capri
When beauty grows too great to bear
How shall I ease me of its ache,
RIVERS TO THE SEA
For beauty more than bitterness
Makes the heart break.
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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 Koran: aught, but are themselves created, and cannot control for themselves
harm or profit, and cannot control death, or life, or resurrection.
And those who misbelieve say, 'This is nothing but a lie which he
has forged, and another people hath helped him at it;' but they have
wrought an injustice and a falsehood.
And they say, 'Old folks' tales, which he has got written down while
they are dictated to him morning and evening.'
Say, 'He sent it down who knows the secret in the heavens and the
earth; verily, He is ever forgiving, merciful!'
And they say, 'What ails this prophet that he eats food and walks in
the markets?- unless there be sent down to him an angel and be a
The Koran |
