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UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 21. REQUIEM by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

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First Line: UNDER THE WIDE AND STARRY SKY
Last Line: AND THE HUNTER HOME FROM THE HILL.
Subject(s): DEATH; GRAVES; IMMORTALITY; SAMOA; STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (1850-1894); DEAD, THE; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;

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.



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