"_Here shall my Saviour be known in all the simplicity of his doctrines. Ah! would that I might witness it; but I have seen those things in a vision. But I faint! I am weary! My earthly journey is finished! Receive my blessing. Go! and be kind one to another._" _Robert Blakey: "Christian Hermits."_ GOETHE or GOeTHE (Johann Wolfgang von, greatest of German poets), 1749-1831. "_More light! more light!_" He mistook the shadow of death for evening twilight. He continued to express himself by signs, drawing letters with his fore-finger in the air, while he had strength, and finally, as life ebbed, drawing figures slowly on the shawl which covered his legs. At half past twelve he composed himself in the corner of the chair. The watcher placed a finger on her lip to intimate that he was asleep. If sleep it was it was a sleep in which a great life glided from this world. _Lewes's Story of Goethe's Life._ Coudray, who was present when the poet died, left a manuscript on "The Last Days and the Death of Goethe," which has been published. Goethe was seated in the bed-room, in an arm-chair standing beside the bed. Thinking that he saw paper lying on the floor, he said: "Why is Schiller's correspondence permitted to lie here?" Immediately, thereupon, he uttered his last audible words: "Do open the shutter in the bed-room, in order that more light may enter." (_Macht doch den Fensterladen im Schlafgemach auf, damit mehr Licht herein komme._) GOLDSMITH (Oliver), 1728-1774. "_No, it is not_," to a physician who asked if his mind was at ease. GOUGH (John Bartholomew, distinguished American temperance advocate), 1817-1886. "_Young man, keep your record_--" the last word was inaudible, but was probably "clean."[25] [25] A paragraph from one of Mr. Gough's public addresses, carved upon his monument in Hope Cemetery, Worcester, shows the strength of his conviction and illustrates the directness and force of his style: "I can desire nothing better for this great country than that a barrier high as heaven be raised between the unpolluted lips of the children and the intoxicating cup; that everywhere men and women should raise strong and determined hands against whatever will defile the body, pollute the mind, or harden the heart against God and His truth." GRANT (Ulysses Simpson, eighteenth President of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of American generals), 1822-1885. "_Water_," said to an attendant who inquired if he wished for anything. GRATTAN (Henry, Irish statesman and orator), 1750-1820. "_I am perfectly resigned. I am surrounded by my family. I have served my country. I have reliance upon God, and am not afraid of the Devil._" GRAY (Thomas, author of "Elegy written in a country churchyard"), 1716-1771. "_Molly, I shall die!_"