Requiem
Requiem
Original Text
Robert Louis Stevenson, "Underwood: XXI," Ballads and Other Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses; Underwoods; Ballads (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900): 129. end/S749/A155/190- Fisher Rare Book Library
2Dig the grave and let me lie.
3Glad did I live and gladly die,
4 And I laid me down with a will.
5This be the verse you grave for me:
6Here he lies where he longed to be;
7Home is the sailor, home from sea,
8 And the hunter home from the hill.
Notes
1] This poem, in full, appears on Stevenson's tomb, in Samoa. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1887
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1996-2000.
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