 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 620 pages
...changeful page, God's bright and intricate device .Of days and seasons doth suffice. — Underwoods. REQUIEM. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. — Underwoods. THE TWO PHILOSOPHERS. On one of the posts before Tentaillon's carriage entry... | |
 | Sidney George Owen, John Swinnerton Phillimore - Elegiac poetry, English - 1898 - 98 pages
...their certain date: — but thou, o human heart of mine, be still, refrain thyself and wait. REQVIEM. Under the wide and starry sky, dig the grave and let...the sailor home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill.' RL STEVENSON. f. OBSTINATA MENTE PERFER, OBDVRA. lam, platane alta, tuas frondes, tua germina,... | |
 | Hattie Tyng Griswold - Authors, American - 1898 - 398 pages
...And I have lived and loved, and closed the door," But he wrote his own requiem in other words : — " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." Like the grave of Helen Hunt on the lonely mountain-top in Colorado, this poet's grave in... | |
 | California - 1913 - 884 pages
...Donnaville — that's to be the name of my colony — and for an epitaph I'd like Robert Louis Stevenson's "Requiem": Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. He paused, a little flushed and exalted. Never before had... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - American literature - 1898 - 204 pages
...travel. He lies buried on the summit of Pala Mountain, 1300 feet high, a fit grave for him who wrote : " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave, and...he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, hnme from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill.' " JAMRS M. BARRIR (1860 ) is a young novelist... | |
 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - Last words - 1900 - 294 pages
...breathe. "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...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. " He said one evening at his happy home in Merton Abbey,... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 674 pages
...God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. REQUIEM. (From " Underwoods.") UNDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill TOL. XIX. — t 10272 FREDERIC JESUP STIMSON. STIMSON, FREDERIC JESUP (pseudonym, JS of Dale),... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 264 pages
...Upon 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...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.' Since his death the chiefs have tabooed the use of firearms upon the hillside where he lies,... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 298 pages
...flower. 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Marc Parrott, Augustus White Long - English poetry - 1902 - 432 pages
...there and 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...the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. ROBEKT Lou1s STEVENSON. LEAD, kindly light, amid th' encircling gloom. Lead Thou me on ;... | |
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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... 
