OF RICHARD JEFFERIES 



THE heart, and the hand, and 

 the mind of a man are for ever 

 driving onwards, and no pro- 

 fundity of rest ever comes to his inmost 

 consciousness. At dawn he looks for- 

 ward to the noonday. So that true and 

 restful happiness is for woman only, 

 though it is given to her by man.—' The 

 Dewy Morn.' 



SO many, and so many, who have 

 loved in the long passage of 

 time, but are gone as the shadow 

 goes from the dial when the sun sinks. 

 Are, then, our noblest feelings to fade 

 and become void ? 



Upon the sun-dial there were curious 

 graven circles and interwoven angles, 

 remnants of the ancient lore which saw 

 fate in the stars and read things above 

 nature in nature. Symbols and signs 

 are still needed, for the earth and life 



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