 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
 | Sally Russell - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 268 pages
...stamping they made over their hay. Glad to be alive, I found myself saying aloud Stevenson's gracefilled "Requiem": Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave...and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die And 1 laid me down with a will. This be the verse you 'grave for me: "Here he lies where he longed to be,... | |
 | Lowell Don Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 316 pages
...plaque, which carried the epitaph Louis himself had penned, was provided by the Stevenson family. It read Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me; Here he lies where he longed to be; Home... | |
 | Christine Wilkie-Stibbs - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 232 pages
...Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, l9l2), 74l. "Under The wide and starry sky / Dig The grave and let me lie / Glad did I live and gladly die . . . This is the verse you grave for me: / 'Here he lies where he longed to be; /Home is The sailor,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 334 pages
...his dying and burial. Heroic, decisive stuff of myth. Stevenson lies "under the wide and starry sky", "glad did I live, and gladly die, and I laid me down with a will," smiling and gazing out at the Vasa Loloa and up to the atua and the heavens and into all the hearts... | |
 | Sid McMath - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 516 pages
...ground, his grave. The tombstone bore an epitaph from one of Stevenson's greatest poems and my favorite: Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie Glad that I lived and gladly die And I laid me down with a will This be the verse you gave for me Here he... | |
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