 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...  Works: The master of Ballantrae - Page 596by Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1910 - 422 pages
...group of mourners to certainly be the fit expression, the inmost speech of the heart of the departed. "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and...will." "This be the verse you grave for me: Here he Ues where, he longed to 6e; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill" Epsom... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1910 - 974 pages
...only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire. 420. Requiem UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...a will. This be the verse you grave for me : Here lie lies where lie longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Pirates - 1910 - 402 pages
...the summer seas he loved so well. <jn a tablet on his tombstone have been placed the words of Ms own Requiem: " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the...down with a wilL "This be the verse you grave for me: H ere he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter home from... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1910 - 424 pages
...group of mourners to certainly be the fit expression, the inmost speech of the heart of the departed. "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and...down with a will." "This be the verse you grave for ine: Here he lies tchere he longed to 6e; Home is the sailor, home from sea. And the hunter home from... | |
 | Frances Rice - Bohemianism - 1910 - 74 pages
...sure that Heaven Found itself richer, knew you at the gateway, Gentleman, scholar. — Wallace Rice. Requiem Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave...And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse that you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed TO be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the... | |
 | Readers - 1910 - 534 pages
...best, We stay as a guest, Then good-by, forever, to Toy-land! 282 A Requiem BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse that you grave for me ; Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Pirates - 1910 - 384 pages
...the summer seas he loved so well. On a tablet on his tombstone have been placed the words of his own Requiem: " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the...live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. "Th1s be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be ; Hume is the sailor, home... | |
 | Marion Zimmer Bradley - Fiction - 1998 - 356 pages
...Sign, and all the rest into being with her desire alone? Because she had to. EIGHTEEN BEYOND THE GRAVE Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. — ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON "/ CALL UPON YOU. BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE ART, BY the blood we share... | |
 | Duncan A. Bruce - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...Stevenson, in search of better health, died at forty-four in Samoa and left this "Requiem" as an epitaph: Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: "Here lies he where he longed to be; Home... | |
 | John McRae - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 172 pages
...'Requiem' section of Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson (Text: Poem (ix) ). Text: Poem (ix) (ix) Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Gladly did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me:... | |
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