 | 1903 - 706 pages
...the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let inn 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 ivh re he long- d to be ; Home is the sai/or, home from sea, And the hunt;r home from the hill. A friend... | |
 | Frank George Carpenter - 1904 - 402 pages
...the Samoan style. Upon one side of it is a bronze plate, bearing these verses written by him : — " 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... | |
 | Frederic William Unger - 1904 - 216 pages
...; Where blest in peace the actions of the just Robert Louis Stevenson's cpitujjh, written himself : 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.... | |
 | 1904 - 660 pages
...God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried. and on the other Stevenson's own verse, 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 U'here he longed to be.... | |
 | 1895 - 526 pages
...exercised a far stronger influence over me than Mr. Ruskin. — From The Forum, December, 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 lits where he longed to be ;... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 296 pages
...Sidney Colvin. Robert Louis Stevenson From a Photograph taken in Stim FROM " UNDERWOODS."-" 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 longed to be; Home... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 pages
...buried at the top of the mountain overlooking his Samoan home in a tomb inscribed with his own 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 longed to be ;... | |
 | William Sharp - 1904 - 414 pages
...words, so unforgettable in their restful music and in the inward cadence of the heart speaking : — 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;... | |
 | Annie E. Holdsworth (Mrs. E.J. Lee-Hamilton.) - 1904 - 310 pages
...that her ladyship had pleasant thoughts to-day. Suddenly she broke out, " Not Marah, but Naomi ! " Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will." There was a flourish in the way she gave the lines. " When sickness undresses man for death," she muttered... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 316 pages
...wide and starry sky, v./ Dig the grave and let me lie. Gladly did I live and gladly die. And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here be lies where be longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.... | |
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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... 
