Requiem
Robert Louis Stevenson * Track #1 On Underwoods
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Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Release Date
Sat Jan 01 1887
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Robert Louis StevensonAbout
Composed in 1880, “Requiem” is Robert Louis Stevenson’s self-written epitaph, which was engraved on his tombstone (without the title, stanza breaks, or punctuation) following his death in 1894:
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Daniel Bosch notes in The Paris Review:
“Requiem” offers us several moving fictions. The princip...
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Requiem Annotated
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.
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When did Robert Louis Stevenson release Requiem?
Robert Louis Stevenson released Requiem on Sat Jan 01 1887.