 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...  An Inland Voyage, Including Travels with a Donkey - Page xviiiby Robert Louis Stevenson - 2006 - 360 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 758 pages
...ordinary death as of a hearty exploit, and draws his figure* from lives of adventure and toil : — " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I lire and gladly die. And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lie»... | |
 | 1919 - 902 pages
...slope to take up again their daily tasks, of the requiem and epitaph by Robert Louis Stevenson : " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...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,... | |
 | American Street Railway Association. Meeting - Electric railroads - 1893 - 1022 pages
...unambitious mule. I think this moribund car horse may well say, in the language of Robert Louis Stevenson: " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Sad did I live and gladly die." (Applause.) The technical press will constantly herald and will continue... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1922 - 1000 pages
...an extra stanza, placed be^i . r •'• tween the two ever-famuiar verses. XX Requiem , , • , , , "Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and...did I live and gladly die And I laid me down with a will. Here shall be rest for evermo, And the heart for aye shall be still This be the verse you grave... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - History - 1887 - 204 pages
...wild, From your whole life, O fair and true Your flowers and thorns you bring with you ! XXI REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...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,... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - American literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...pretentious lyrics, and volumes and cycles of lyrics, have long gone silent ?— Under the wide and starrr 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 verge you grave for me: Here he Пев where he l-nged to be; Borne is the sailor,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1888 - 338 pages
...Such a passage is surely the following "Requiem " : " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave und 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; Some is the sailor,... | |
 | American poetry - 1892 - 260 pages
...not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! Charles Wolfe. REQUIEM UNDER the wide and starry sky Dig the grave, and let...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 he ; Home is the sailor,... | |
 | American poetry - 1892 - 266 pages
...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! Charles Wolfe. REQUIEM UXDER the wide and starry sky Dig the grave, and let me...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,... | |
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