300 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



sea, the firm earth, all the stars of night are 

 feeble all, all the cosmos is feeble ; it is not 

 strong enough to utter my prayer-desire. 

 My soul cannot reach to its full desire of 

 prayer. I need no earth, or sea, or sun to 

 think my thought. If my thought-part 

 the psyche were entirely separated from 

 the body, and from the earth, I should of 

 myself desire the same. In itself my soul 

 desires ; my existence, my soul-existence is 

 in itself my prayer, and so long as it exists 

 so long will it pray that I may have the fullest 

 soul-life." 



