 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
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1903 - 692 pages
...Colvin. Robert Louis Stevenson From a Photograph taken in Samoa FROM " UNDERWOODS."-" REQUIEM." Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...'grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to be; fjome is the sailor, home from sea, Ami the hunter home from tlu hill. Stevenson's House at Vailima,... | |
 | Adam L. Gowans - 1903 - 168 pages
...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 and let me...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 - 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...from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.' On Saturday evening, February 6, Miss Boyd spoke in the Students' Building on the subject of the work... | |
 | 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...from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill." On the other side was an inscription in Samoan, which translated is " Whither thou goest I will go,... | |
 | 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...from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill.' " On Saturday evening, February 6, Miss Boyd spoke in the Students' Building on the subject of the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 me lie....from the sea, And the hunter, home from the hill." On Robert Burton, author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy " .• Here lies the body of Democritus Junior,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Sharp - 1904 - 414 pages
...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 me...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 - 1904 - 402 pages
...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 me...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... | |
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