...Oxford Book of Victorian Verse, ed. Arthur Quiller-Couch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, l9l2), 74l. "Under The wide and starry sky / Dig The grave and let me lie / Glad did I live and gladly die . . . This is the verse you grave for me: / 'Here he lies where he longed to be; /Home is The sailor,...

...his dying and burial. Heroic, decisive stuff of myth. Stevenson lies "under the wide and starry sky", "glad did I live, and gladly die, and I laid me down with a will," smiling and gazing out at the Vasa Loloa and up to the atua and the heavens and into all the hearts...

...ground, his grave. The tombstone bore an epitaph from one of Stevenson's greatest poems and my favorite: Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie Glad that I lived and gladly die And I laid me down with a will This be the verse you gave for me Here he...

...strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR ENGLISH (1775-1864) Requiem Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCOTTISH (1850-1894) The Lonely Death...

...Lebzeiten bestimmt. Die letzten drei Zeilen seines 1879 verfassten „Requiems", zieren den Grabstein: „Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and...he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, hörne from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. 3. Heim und Ordnung Wie schon die ersten Menschen...

...sportsman, but his poem, "Requiem," could be an epitaph for every man who lives and loves the outdoor life: Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he long'd to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. THIRTY-TWO...

...a small amount of Robert Louis Stevenson memorabilia: 'Requiem' in a chipped brown frame Under die wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie....live and gladly die. And I laid me down with a will. - and a photograph of the grave itself, the famous sepulchre built, as the author had requested, atop...

...thistle. We sat down on a bench. In a husky voice Tom recited from memory the verse "graved" on the tomb: 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 me; Here he lies where he longed to be;...

...In the song Requiem (ca. 1911-14), Ives sets the familiar poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that ends 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 from the hill. To set the last line, Ives uses the opening motive of "Taps"...

...around Apia. It's utterly still — a peaceful, poignant, lonely place. Stevenson's requiem reads: Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did J live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies...