Quote#Death
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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