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<\/a>This travel blog<\/a> photo’s source is TravelPod page: Robert Louis Stevenson Museum and grave<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
Google<\/a> has reminded me that today was the 160th<\/sup><\/font> anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson’s birth. I think my grandmother introduced me to him, reading A Child’s Garden of Verses<\/i> to me when I was small—and of course I read Treasure Island<\/i>. But I’ve always loved this poem, which I still hear with memory’s ear in the old-fashioned Sidney Homer setting that was my introduction to it as a young singer. I looked for a performance online but failed to find one. I’ll keep looking, and if I find it I’ll post a link.<\/p>\n Requiem<\/b><\/p>\n Under the wide and starry sky This be the verse you grave for me: The poem has inspired various writers, not the least being William Humphrey, whose 1958 novel, Home from the Hill,<\/i> is a minor masterpiece that became the source of a pretty good film<\/a> by Vincente Minnelli. I heard Humphrey talk about Home from the Hill<\/i> and other things not long before he died. He seemed a shy man, not unlike Stevenson. It was a good talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This travel blog photo’s source is TravelPod page: Robert Louis Stevenson Museum and grave Google has reminded me that today was the 160th anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson’s birth. I think my grandmother introduced me to him, reading A Child’s … Continue reading
\nDig the grave and let me lie:
\nGlad did I live and gladly die,
\n And I laid me down with a will.<\/p>\n
\nHere he lies where he long\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d to be;
\nHome is the sailor, home from sea,
\n And the hunter home from the hill.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n