Poems & Selections

Requiem

By Robert Louis Stevenson
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 gave 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.

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There is a Bridge of Memory, From Earth to Heaven above. It keeps you always near us, It’s called the Bridge of Love. May you always walk in sunshine, And God’s love around you flow, For happiness you gave us, No one will ever know. It broke our hearts to lose you, But you did […]
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