Language: English
Our translations: GER ITA
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."
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,3 of the original text.
Note: Steele changes "longed" to "long'd" in the last stanza.
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Grabschrift", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Requiem", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 84
Language: Italian (Italiano) after the English
Sia sotto un cielo vasto e stellato
Scavata la tomba, e sepolto stia là.
Sereno io muoio e sereno ho vissuto
Ed ora qui giaccio per mia volontà.
...
E sia, sulla mia tomba, questa frase incisa:
"Per suo desiderio egli ora qui riposa,
a casa è il marinaio che ha viaggiato per mare,
a casa torna, dal colle, il cacciatore."
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,3 of the original text.
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- Translation from English to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2005 by Ferdinando Albeggiani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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