OF RICHARD JEFFERIES 

 ideas we now possess I believe there 

 exists a whole circle of ideas. In the 

 conception of the idea that there are 

 others, I lay claim to another idea. — 

 1 The Story of my Heart.' 



GIVE me life strong and full as 

 the brimming' ocean ; give me 

 thoughts wide as its plain ; 

 give me a soul beyond these. Sweet is 

 the bitter sea by the shore where the 

 faint blue pebbles are lapped by the 

 green-grey wave, where the wind-quiver- 

 ing foam is loth to leave the lashed 

 stone. Sweet is the bitter sea, and the 

 clear green in which the gaze seeks the 

 soul, looking through the glass into 

 itself. The sea thinks for me as I listen 

 and ponder: the sea thinks, and every 

 boom of the wave repeats my prayer. — 

 'The Story of my Heart.' 



49 



