 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
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pages
...grasses, Only the mightier movement sounds and passes ; Only winds and rivers, 848. Requiem T TNDER the wide and starry sky ^^ Dig the grave and let me...will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lut 'where he long'd to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the htlL TW... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 296 pages
...Upon the other panel, in English, is his own Requiem: — A ROBERT LOUlS Q i850 STEVENSON. i894 Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...a will. This be the verse you grave for me : Here be lies where be longed to be; Home is the sailor, bome from sea, And the banter bome from the bill.... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1902 - 546 pages
...bravery and honest faith may achieve. Very fitting were the words of his noble little Requiem : — Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill 1 " Stevenson, when once his bent was manifest, consciously laid out for himself the life of a novelist.... | |
 | Charles Fletcher Lummis - 1904 - 628 pages
...where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be huried. and on the other Stevenson's own verse, Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me...home from the sea And the hunter home from the hill. I 4 3. H • A SAMOAN CLUB WOMAN. 318 OUT W EST The tropic sun bathes the hill-top in warm light, the... | |
 | 1902 - 158 pages
...hemlock tree! O hemlock tree! how faithful are thy branches! Longfellow REQUIEM. December j, 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. —Stevenson. The preludings of Winter are as beautiful as... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 286 pages
...fathers. There they erected to him a rude monument, and engraved on it his own " Requiem " : — " 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." SUBJECTS FOB STUDY AND COMPOSITION 1. Why I like (or dislike)... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - 1902 - 432 pages
...twitter in the chimney — But I go forever and come again no more. ROBERT Louis STEVENSON. REQUIEM 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. ROBEKT Lou1s STEVENSON. LEAD, kindly light, amid th' encircling... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1902 - 598 pages
...is my God — I seek not to divine : At his command I stir, EL STEVENSON. 1850-1894 A REQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie...will. This be the verse you 'grave for me : " Here he is where he long'd to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." JAMES... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, George Henry Warner - 1902 - 578 pages
...From 'Poems and Ballads.' By permission of the authorized publishers. Charles Scribner's Sons u NDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...with a wilL This be the verse you grave for me: Here lie lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea. And the hunter home from the hill.... | |
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