 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...  HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS - Page 229by KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Robinson Ellis, Alfred Denis Godley - 1899 - 298 pages
...philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry, Arts which I lov'd, for they, my friend, were thine. CLXXIII Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.' STEVENSON. CLXXII Noster erat terrae nusquam ut magis alter... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1900 - 294 pages
..."The Academy" tells this of Stevenson : " An old friend had set his beautiful lines to music : Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie....home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. " He said one evening at his happy home in Merton Abbey, before he started on his last journey, that,... | |
 | Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton, Charles Edward Doble, James Sutherland Cotton, Charles Lewis Hind, William Teignmouth Shore, Alfred Bruce Douglas, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1900 - 578 pages
...word more. An old friend had set Stevenson's beautiful lines to music : Under the wide amd starry eky Dig the grave and let me lie. •Glad did I live,...be the verse you grave for me : Here he lies where lie lùixjed to lie ; Rome is the sailor, ¡юте. from the sea, Ami the liuntcr home from the hill.... | |
 | 1900 - 780 pages
...arebuteight lines of it, but I know nothing finer in its way: " ' Under Ihe wide and starry sky I»ay me down and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die. And...be the verse you grave for me; Here he lies where lie longed to be; Home is the Sailor, home from sea, And the Hunter home from the hill !' •'Sleep... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1900 - 138 pages
...From your whole life, O fair and true Your flowers and thorns yon bring with you I XXI REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse yon grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 466 pages
...lie; Glad did I live and gladly I die And I laid me down with a will. "This be the verse that they grave for me: •Here he lies where he longed to be;...from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.*" No one who reads this will need to be told that its author was a poet capable of attaining the highest... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 264 pages
...the other panel, in English, is his own Requiem : — A ROBERT LOUIS a 185o STEVENSON. 1894 ' Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...-where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.' Since his death the chiefs have tabooed the use of firearms... | |
 | 1901 - 674 pages
...bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. REQUIEM. (From " Underwoods.") UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill TOL. XIX. — t 10272 FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON. STIMSON, FREDERIC... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 298 pages
...Upon the other panel, in English, is his own Requiem: — A ROBERT LOUIS O 1850 STEVENSON. 1894 Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, bome from sea, And the hunter bome from the bill. Since his death the chiefs have tabooed the use of... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 302 pages
...Upon the other panel, in English, is his own Requiem: — A ROBERT LOUIS Q 1850 STEVENSON. 1894 Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...you grave for me : Here he lIes where he longed to he; Home is the saIlor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hIll. Since his death the chiefs... | |
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