 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 страници
...exploit, and draws his figures from lives of adventure and toil : — " Under the wide and starry sky I|'i the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly...where he longed to be. Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill." This man should surely have been honoured with the pomp... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 618 страници
...REQUIEM From 'Poems and Ballads.' By permission of the authorized publishers. Charles Scribner's Sons UNDER the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let...home from sea. And the hunter home from the hill. i TO WILL. H. LOW From ' Poems and Ballads.' By permission of the authorized publishers, Charles Scribner's... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 страници
...God's bright and intricate device Of days and seasons doth suffice. REQUIEM. FROM "UNDERWOODS.1 JXDER the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the seay And the hunter home from the hill. SIR WALTER BESANT. NOVELIST AND REFORMER. ]ROBABLY no writer... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1897 - 584 страници
...eight lines of it, but I know nothing finer in its way: " Under the wide and starry sky Lay me down and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And...home from sea, And the Hunter home from the hill." Sleep there, bright heart! In your waking hours you would have laughed at the exaggerated praises which... | |
 | Hattie Tyng Griswold - 1898 - 398 страници
...And I have lived and loved, and closed the door," But he wrote his own requiem in other words : — " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." Like the grave of Helen Hunt on the lonely mountain-top in Colorado, this poet's grave in distant Samoa... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 620 страници
...page, God's bright and intricate device .Of days and seasons doth suffice. — Underwoods. REQUIEM. Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let...home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. — Underwoods. THE TWO PHILOSOPHERS. On one of the posts before Tentaillon's carriage entry he espied... | |
 | Sidney George Owen, John Swinnerton Phillimore - 1898 - 98 страници
...their certain date: — but thou, o human heart of mine, be still, refrain thyself and wait. REQVIEM. Under the wide and starry sky, dig the grave and let...home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill.' RL STEVENSON. f. OBSTINATA MENTE PERFER, OBDVRA. lam, platane alta, tuas frondes, tua germina, profer... | |
 | 1913 - 884 страници
...that's to be the name of my colony — and for an epitaph I'd like Robert Louis Stevenson's "Requiem": Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let...where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. He paused, a little flushed and exalted. Never before had... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1898 - 204 страници
...travel. He lies buried on the summit of Pala Mountain, 1300 feet high, a fit grave for him who wrote : " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave, and...he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, hnme from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill.' " JAMRS M. BARRIR (1860 ) is a young novelist... | |
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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 is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter... 
