364 THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES. 



" One thing I saw in one of his last note- 

 books : Three great giants are against me 

 disease, despair, and poverty.' 



" One thing more. His wife said that their 

 time had been for long spent in prayer together 

 and reading St. Luke. 



"Almost his last intelligible words were, 

 ' Yes, yes ; that is so. Help, Lord, for Jesus' 

 sake. Darling, good-bye. God bless you and 

 the children, and save you all from such great 

 pain.' 



" He was buried at Broad water, by Worthing, 

 Sussex. 



" In the gentlest, sweet, soft, sunny rain he 

 was borne along the path to his grave in the 

 grass, and when the last part of the service for 

 the dead had been read, well and solemnly, 

 and we turned away leaving him for ever on 

 earth, the large tears from heaven fell thick 

 and fast, and over and over again came to me 

 the saying, ' Happy are the dead that the rain 

 rains on.' The modest home-made wreath of 

 wild wood-clematis and myrtle my wife had 



