Two songs

Song Cycle by Kathleen Billingham

?. Requiem [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

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.

Here may the winds about me blow,
Here the sea may come and go
Here lies peace  forevermo'
And the heart for aye shall be still.

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."

Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Requiem", appears in Underwoods, first published 1887

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Note: Steele changes "longed" to "long'd" in the last stanza.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Total word count: 84