 | English poetry - 1896 - 532 pages
...Choose thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a killing sin, And to my dead heart run them in. REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me l1e. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a wilL This be the verse you grave for... | |
 | Education - 1910 - 916 pages
...inscription on the tomb is one Mr. Stevenson wrote himself: — • ROBERT LOUIS 1850 STEVENSON 1894 Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me He. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 618 pages
...REQUIEM From 'Poems and Ballads.' By permission of the authorized publishers. Charles Scribner's Sons UNDER the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let...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. i TO WILL. H. LOW From '... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - American literature - 1897 - 602 pages
...God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. REQUIEM. FROM "UNDERWOODS.1 JXDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...you grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the seay And the hunter home from the hill. SIR WALTER BESANT. NOVELIST... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1897 - 584 pages
...eight lines of it, but I know nothing finer in its way: " Under the wide and starry sky Lay me down and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And...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." Sleep there, bright heart!... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - University extension - 1897 - 476 pages
...is published liy Cluirles Scribner's Sons.] '' Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and li t me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the veise you grave for me: Here he lien irlu-re he longeil to he. .Home is the xttilor, home from sen,... | |
 | Michael Myers Shoemaker - Oceania - 1897 - 440 pages
.... ,H UNDER THE WIDE AND STARRY SK • . DIQ THE. G8AVE AND LET ME LIE ; QLAD DID I -".'E AND QLADLY DIE, AND I LAID ME DOWN WITH A WILL. THIS BE THE VERSE YOU QRAVE FOR ME. HERE HE LIES WHERE HE LONGED TO BE . HOME IS THE SAILOR, HOME FROM THE SEA AND THE HUNTER... | |
 | California - 1913 - 884 pages
...Donnaville — that's to be the name of my colony — and for an epitaph I'd like Robert Louis Stevenson's "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 the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. He paused, a little flushed... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 620 pages
...changeful page, God's bright and intricate device .Of days and seasons doth suffice. — Underwoods. 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. — Underwoods. THE TWO... | |
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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... 
