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Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson


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 home from the hill.



Robert Louis Stevenson


Robert Louis Stevenson's other poems:
  1. I Know Not How, But As I Count
  2. A Child's Garden of Verses. Envoys 3. To Auntie
  3. Ad Martialem
  4. At Last She Comes
  5. The Piper


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • George Meredith Requiem ("Where faces are hueless, where eyelids are dewless")
  • Ogden Nash Requiem ("There was a young belle of Natchez")
  • Emily Dickinson Requiem ("Taken from men this morning")

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