Under the wide and starry skyDig 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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Robert Louis Stevenson quotes & passages
7 passages by Robert Louis Stevenson, from Requiem, A Child's Garden of Verses, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and Virginibus Puerisque. Robert Louis Stevenson died in 1894, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
The world is so full of a number of things,I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
It is very nice to thinkThe world is full of meat and drink,With little children saying graceIn every Christian kind of place.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
For marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
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