 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 pagini
...ordinary death as of a hearty exploit, and draws his figure* from lives of adventure and toil : — " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I lire and gladly die. And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lie»... | |
 | 1919 - 902 pagini
...slope to take up again their daily tasks, of the requiem and epitaph by Robert Louis Stevenson : " 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... | |
 | American Street Railway Association. Meeting - 1893 - 1022 pagini
...unambitious mule. I think this moribund car horse may well say, in the language of Robert Louis Stevenson: " Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Sad did I live and gladly die." (Applause.) The technical press will constantly herald and will continue... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1887 - 204 pagini
...wild, From your whole life, O fair and true Your flowers and thorns you bring with you ! XXI REQUIEM 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 ;... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1924 - 952 pagini
...was lowered ; flowers were strewn on it, and then the hurrying spades began to throw back the earth. "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... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1922 - 1000 pagini
...an extra stanza, placed be^i . r •'• tween the two ever-famuiar verses. XX Requiem , , • , , , "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 shall be rest for evermo, And the heart for aye shall be still This... | |
 | Halkett Lord, Richard Halkett - 1888 - 572 pagini
...pretentious lyrics, and volumes and cycles of lyrics, have long gone silent ?— Under the wide and starrr 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 verge you grave for me: Here he Пев where he l-nged to be;... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1888 - 338 pagini
...Such a passage is surely the following "Requiem " : " Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave und 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;... | |
 | 1892 - 260 pagini
...not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! Charles Wolfe. REQUIEM 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 he ;... | |
 | 1892 - 266 pagini
...line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory ! Charles Wolfe. REQUIEM UXDER 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 ;... | |
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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... 
