Requiem

By Robert Louis Stevenson

1850-1894


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 long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
         And the hunter home from the hill.

DayPoems Poem No. 796
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/796.html">Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson</a>

The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor

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