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... HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS - Sida 229efter KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1897 - 584 sidor
...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...where he longed to be ; Home is the Sailor, home from sea, And the Hunter home from the hill." Sleep there, bright heart! In your waking hours you would... | |
| 1913 - 884 sidor
...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 me lie,...home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. He paused, a little flushed and exalted. Never before had Bob McGraw unburdened his fyeart of its innermost... | |
| Hattie Tyng Griswold - 1898 - 398 sidor
...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 me lie....where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." Like the grave of Helen Hunt on the lonely mountain-top in... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 620 sidor
...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 me...where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill. — Underwoods. THE TWO PHILOSOPHERS. On one of the posts before... | |
| Sidney George Owen, John Swinnerton Phillimore - 1898 - 98 sidor
...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 me...where he longed to be; home is the sailor home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill.' RL STEVENSON. f. OBSTINATA MENTE PERFER, OBDVRA. lam, platane... | |
| James Willis Westlake - 1898 - 204 sidor
...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 let me...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... | |
| James Willis Westlake - 1898 - 206 sidor
...Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave, and let me lie ; Glad did I live, and gladly die, And 1 laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave...from the sea. And the hunter home from the hill.' " JAMES M. BARRIR (1860 ) is a young novelist of Kirriethrowing over them the spell of imagination... | |
| Richard Burton - 1898 - 406 sidor
...of which is English unadulterated, with the one exception of the word verse : " REQUIEM. " Under che wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie....will. " This be the verse you grave for me : Here be lies where be longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the... | |
| Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr - 1898 - 858 sidor
...know nothing finer in its way — " Under the wide and starry sky Lay me down and let me lie, (Had did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with...you grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to Ьe : Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." "Sleep there, bright heart!... | |
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