Death & Dying

Requiem

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894

Death & Dying

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.

MLA

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Requiem.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/98/.

Chicago

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Requiem.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/98/.

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