Requiem E-book
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Genre: Literature, Poetry
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) - Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist,
best known for his adventure stories. Stevenson was a sickly man (he died
of tuberculosis) who nevertheless led an adventurous life. He spent his last
five years on the island of Samoa as a planter and chief of the natives.
Requiem (1879) - 15 years before he died -- ill, distraught and close to
death -- Stevenson penned this, his own epitaph. This poem is engraved on
his tombstone in Samoa. Opening line: Under the wide and starry sky, ...
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