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

Composition:

Set to music by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Requiem", op. 13 no. 5 (1907?), published 1907, stanzas 1,3 [ medium voice and piano ], confirmed with a 1989 edition, Recital Publications, Huntsville, TX

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):

• 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

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 84