 REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter...  The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson - Page 129by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895Full view - About this book
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 758 pages
...ordinary death as of a hearty exploit, and draws his figure* from lives of adventure and toil : — " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I lire and gladly die. And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lie»... | |
 | 1919 - 902 pages
...slope to take up again their daily tasks, of the requiem and epitaph by Robert Louis Stevenson : " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...grave for me : ' Here he lies, where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.' " A MANY-SIDED MAN... | |
 | American Street Railway Association. Meeting - Electric railroads - 1893 - 1022 pages
...unambitious mule. I think this moribund car horse may well say, in the language of Robert Louis Stevenson: " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Sad did I live and gladly die." (Applause.) The technical press will constantly herald and will continue... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - History - 1887 - 204 pages
...all the wild, From your whole life, O fair and true Your flowers and thorns you bring with you ! XXI REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...you grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. XXII . THE CELESTIAL SURGEON... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1922 - 1000 pages
...has in the manuscript an extra stanza, placed be^i . r •'• tween the two ever-famuiar verses. XX Requiem , , • , , , "Under the wide and starry sky,...live and gladly die And I laid me down with a will. Here shall be rest for evermo, And the heart for aye shall be still This be the verse you grave for... | |
 | 1911 - 916 pages
...of my tomb follows: ROBERT Louis STEVENSON BORN 1850, OF A ENGINEERS, DIED FAMILY OF "Nitor aquis." Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. bu, who pass this grave, put aside hatred ; ve kindness; be all services remembered your heart and... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1888 - 338 pages
...Such a passage is surely the following "Requiem " : " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave und let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I...you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be; Some is the sailor, home from sea, Atul the hunter home from the hill." The greater number of these... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...pretentious lyrics, and volumes and cycles of lyrics, have long gone silent ?— Under the wide and starrr sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live...gladly die. And I laid me down with a will. This be the verge you grave for me: Here he Пев where he l-nged to be; Borne is the sailor, hnme from sea, And... | |
 | American poetry - 1892 - 260 pages
...carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! Charles Wolfe. REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky Dig the grave,...home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Robert Louis Stevenson, THE VOICE OF THE SEA IN the hush of the autumn night I hear the voice of the... | |
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