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 long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
| About the poet |
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| By the same poet |
| Romance |
| In the Highlands |
| Related books |
| Robert Louis Stevenson at amazon.co.uk |
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