 | Frederic Rowland Marvin - 1900 - 294 pages
...breathe. "The Academy" tells this of Stevenson : " An old friend had set his beautiful lines to music : 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;... | |
 | 1900 - 780 pages
...arebuteight lines of it, but I know nothing finer in its way: " ' Under Ihe wide and starry sky I»ay me down 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 lie longed to be;... | |
 | George Warrington Steevens - 1900 - 212 pages
...himself in the open deserts of the Soudan— " Under the wide and starry sky," the grave has been dug, and " let me lie." ' Glad did I live, and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will." The personality of George Steevens was one which might have been complex... | |
 | 1900 - 638 pages
...virgin forest and lovingly carry his body to its last resting-place on the summit of Vaca mountain. " Under the wide and starry sky, dig the grave and let me lie," he had asked in his " Requiem." His wish was granted. He sleeps his last sleep under southern constellations,... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1900 - 598 pages
...",'-'" K : .':":- / Dig the grave.and let me lie. ;inV> .;j , Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me : — c Here he lies where he longed to be ;' Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home... | |
 | 1901 - 674 pages
...God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. REQUIEM. (From " Underwoods.") 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 ;... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 298 pages
...flower. Upon the other panel, in English, is his own Requiem: — A ROBERT LOUIS O 1850 STEVENSON. 1894 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... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pages
...grasses, Only the mightier movement sounds and passes ; Only winds and rivers, 848. Requiem T TNDER 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 lut 'where he long'd to be ;... | |
 | Sir Graham Balfour - 1901 - 298 pages
...flower. Upon the other panel, in English, is his own Requiem: — A ROBERT LOUIS a 1850 STEVENSON. 1894 Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did 1 live and gladly die, And 1 laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he... | |
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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... 
