Requiem
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
Reads in about 1 minute8 linesNon-religious
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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 home from the hill.
About this text
- Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850–1894
- Printing used
- Underwoods (1887)
- First published
- 1887
- Public domain
- This printing 1887, before 1931
- Often chosen
- for dad, for a man, non-religious, short