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... Moon Handbooks South Pacific - Strona 518autor: David Stanley - 2004 - Liczba stron: 1136Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Charles Warren Stoddard - 1903 - Liczba stron: 398
...crown of Vaea, where he had longed to lie. For has he not sung his own dirge in these prophetic lines? "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... | |
| Adam L. Gowans - 1903 - Liczba stron: 168
...leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. <?/. 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... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1903 - Liczba stron: 112
...NOV., 1903 CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD IX 1 JES TRIPLEX . ' 3 ORDERED SOUTH 27 „ WALKING TOURS 59 478393 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... | |
| 1903 - Liczba stron: 648
...loyal friend, an affectionate son. and an honest literary man. Indeed his own is his best epitaph : " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie : Glad did I live and gladly die And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me : * Here he... | |
| Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1903 - Liczba stron: 382
...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... | |
| William Sharp - 1904 - Liczba stron: 414
...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... | |
| John William Cunliffe - 1904 - Liczba stron: 344
...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... | |
| Frank George Carpenter - 1904 - Liczba stron: 402
...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... | |
| Frederic William Unger - 1904 - Liczba stron: 216
...; 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... | |
| 1895 - Liczba stron: 526
...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... | |
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