February: Under the Wide and Starry Sky

Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan is the story of Robert Louis Stevenson's American wife. You might recall that Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, The Strange case of Dr. Jekyl and Hyde,  and Kidnapped. The poem from which the title is taken is below.

 Requiem 

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.
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Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.