330 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



" Amaryllis," and a quantity of papers which 

 have yet to be collected and published. If, 

 even for a moment, he had an interval of 

 strength, his busy pen began again to race 

 over the paper, hasting to set down the 

 thoughts that filled his brain. 



His disease was discovered, after a period of 

 intense suffering, to be an ulceration of the 

 small intestine. It was weakness induced by 

 this disease, which caused other complications, 

 under which he gradually sank. 



I suppose that Jefferies could never be con- 

 sidered a strong man. As a boy, tall, active, 

 nervous, he was muscularly weaker than his 

 younger brother. At the age of eighteen he 

 showed symptoms which caused fear of a 

 decline. Perhaps his intense love of the open 

 air indicated the kind of medicine which he 

 most needed. When he could no longer go 

 into the open air he died. Perhaps, too, the 

 consciousness of physical weakness, the sense 

 of impending early death, caused him to yearn 

 with so much longing after physical perfection 

 and the fuller life which he clearly saw was 

 possible. Those who are doomed to die young 



