 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...  English Literature - Page 361by Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Adam L. Gowans - 1903 - 168 pages
...; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. <?/. Requiem. UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lies inhere he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. 1887... | |
 | 1903 - 648 pages
...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...where he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill.' " On Saturday evening, February 6, Miss Boyd spoke in... | |
 | 1903 - 706 pages
...the inward cadence of the heart speaking :-- Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let inn lie ; Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me...This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lies ivh re he long- d to be ; Home is the sai/or, home from sea, And the hunt;r home from the hill. A friend... | |
 | Laura Stubbs - 1903 - 130 pages
...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...where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." On the other side was an inscription in Samoan, which... | |
 | 1903 - 642 pages
...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...where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.' On Saturday evening, February 6, Miss Boyd spoke in the... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 pages
...bottle." He 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...home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. A COLLEGE MAGAZINE. All through my boyhood and youth, I was known and pointed out for the pattern of... | |
 | Frank George Carpenter - 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...home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." 18. OUR HAWAIIAN POSSESSIONS — HONOLULU WE are again under the shadow of the American flag, and about... | |
 | William Sharp - 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...home from sea. And the hunter home from the hill. A friend who saw Stevenson in Samoa told me that once, on half-jocularly asking him 'what's your secret?'... | |
 | Frederic William Unger - 1904 - 216 pages
...; Where blest in peace the actions of the just Robert Louis Stevenson's cpitujjh, written himself : Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...where he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter, home from the hill." On Robert Burton, author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy... | |
 | 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... | |
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