 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...  Colossi: A Lyric Anthology. I - Page 136edited by - 1906 - 202 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1904 - 238 pages
...cried Will. 'I have been waiting for you these many years. Give me your hand, and welcome.' TJ NDER the wide and starry sky *^ Dig the grave and let me...be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunlcr home from the hill. "DUT the girls picked up their skirts, as if •*~* they were sure they... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - English literature - 1904 - 344 pages
...was buried at the top of the mountain overlooking his Samoan home in a tomb inscribed with his own Requiem : Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. A COLLEGE MAGAZINE. All through my boyhood and youth, I was... | |
 | William Sharp - Authors, English - 1904 - 414 pages
...words, so unforgettable in their restful music and in the inward cadence of the heart speaking : — Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea. And the hunter home from the hill. A friend who saw Stevenson in Samoa told me that once, on half-jocularly... | |
 | Frank George Carpenter - Australia - 1904 - 402 pages
...the Samoan style. Upon one side of it is a bronze plate, bearing these verses written by him : — " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." 18. OUR HAWAIIAN POSSESSIONS — HONOLULU WE are again under... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 296 pages
...friend, Mr. Sidney Colvin. Robert Louis Stevenson From a Photograph taken in Stim FROM " UNDERWOODS."-" REQUIEM." Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...for me Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is ¡he sailor, home from sea, And ¡he hunter home from tlu lull. 3d&iiV&'.i iu *• Stevenson's House... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1904 - 1058 pages
...sounds and passes ; Only winds and rivers, Life and death. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 848. Requiem T TNDER the wide and starry sky **^ Dig the grave and let...the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longd to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. TW ROLLESTON The... | |
 | Pacific States - 1904 - 660 pages
...God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. and on the other Stevenson's own verse, Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let...will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies U'here he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea And the hunter home from the hill. '••-"•'... | |
 | 1895 - 526 pages
...Sejnnour Haden exercised a far stronger influence over me than Mr. Ruskin. — From The Forum, December, REQUIEM. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...will. This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lits where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.... | |
 | 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... | |
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