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Under the wide and starry sky

Quote byRobert Louis Stevenson · 1850–1894

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Underwoods (1887), Bk. I, Requiem (the final sentence was used on Stevenson's Gravestone)..

English (original)

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 from the hill.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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