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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. Ad Martialem
  3. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 7. PLAIN as the glistering planets shine
  4. Songs of Travel and Other Verses. 31. To Mother Maryanne
  5. De Ligurra


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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