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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894

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 long’d to be;

Home is the sailor, home from the sea,

And the hunter home from the hill.