Requiem
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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