"Robert Louis Stevenson (by himself) - 1850-1894"
— Epitaphs

January 1, 1970

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Death
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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 the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. — This epitaph also prefaces the Robert Heinlein story "Requiem" and serves as the protagonist's epitaph; use for Stevenson reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 235.