Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Louis Stevenson. 18501894848. 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: | 5 |
Here he lies where he long’d to be; | |
Home is the sailor, home from sea, | |
And the hunter home from the hill. |