To our senses, the elements are four
and have ever been, and will
ever be
for they are
the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception
the four Great Ones, the Four
Roots, the First Four
of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of
the world.
To find the other many elements, you must go to the
laboratory
and hunt
them down.
But the
four we have always with us, they are our world.
Or rather, they have us with
them.