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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Requiem

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

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.