Source: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
“Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.”
Bk. I, Requiem (the final sentence was used on Stevenson's Gravestone).
Underwoods (1887)
Context: 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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Robert Louis Stevenson 118
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850–1894Related quotes
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“Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter’s home.”
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Context: We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes…
“where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.”
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