Requiem | Under the wide and starry sky

Under the wide and starry sky

Language: English

Our translations: GER ITA

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.

Here may the winds about me blow,
Here the sea may come and go
Here lies peace  forevermo'
And the heart for aye shall be still.

This be the verse you grave for me:
"Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill."

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• B. Fairchild • J. Rogers • D. Steele

J. Rogers sets stanzas 1, 3
B. Fairchild sets stanzas 1, 3
D. Steele sets stanzas 1, 3

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Note: Steele changes "longed" to "long'd" in the last stanza.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Requiem", appears in Underwoods, first published 1887 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir (1868 - 1946), "Requiem", published <<1952 [ TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Kathleen Billingham , "Requiem", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Two songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Keith Warren Bissell (1912 - 1992), "Requiem", published 1967 [ SSA chorus a cappella or piano ], note: piano version is from 1971 [sung text not yet checked]
by Lawrance Arthur Collingwood (1887 - 1982), "Requiem", published 1928 [ SATB chorus or TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Harold Craxton , "A requiem", published 1914 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by (Henry) Walford Davies, Sir (1869 - 1941), "Requiem", 1919, published 1931 [ voice and piano ], from Twenty-one songs, no. 15 [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul N. Edmonds (b. 1873), "Requiem", published 1920 [ SSA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Requiem", op. 13 no. 5 (1907?), published 1907, stanzas 1,3 [ medium voice and piano ], confirmed with a 1989 edition, Recital Publications, Huntsville, TX [sung text checked 1 time]
by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "Requiem", published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Shena Eleanor Fraser (1910 - 1993), "Requiem", published 1950 [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Edmund Grinnell , "Requiem", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Sidney Homer (1864 - 1953), "Requiem", op. 15 no. 2, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs from "Underwoods", no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954), "Requiem", published 1935 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Martin Kalmanoff (1920 - 2007), "Under the wide and starry sky", published 1960 [ TTBB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Kountz (1896 - 1950), "Under the wide and starry sky", published 1949 [ unaccompanied voice or TTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Cyril Bertram Lander , "Requiem" [ high voice and piano ], from Flores de mi primavera [sung text not yet checked]
by Cecilia (Cissie) Loftus , "Requiem", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ben Moore (b. 1960), "Requiem" [ voice and piano ], from Eight Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by T. More , "Requiem", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
by Peter Russell Naylor (b. 1933), "Requiem" [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Clara Osmond , "Requiem", published <<1940 [sung text not yet checked]
by (Gerald) Graham Peel (1878 - 1937), "Requiem", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], from Two songs [sung text not yet checked]
by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "Requiem" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Karol Rathaus (1895 - 1954), "Requiem", published <<1955 [ SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857 - 1940), "Requiem", published 1919, stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ], from In Memoriam, no. 2, New York, G. Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Requiem", published 1950 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Cyril Meir Scott (1879 - 1970), "Requiem", published 1917 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ], London : Elkin [sung text not yet checked]
by William Shanks , "Requiem", published 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Oley Speaks (1874 - 1948), "Requiem", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Douglas Steele (1910 - 1999), "Requiem", stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ], Manchester, Forsyth Publications [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ronald Stevenson (b. 1928), "Requiem", 1964 [ medium voice and piano ], from Four Robert Louis Stevenson Songs [sung text not yet checked]
by E. Roy Thompson , "Requiem", published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Whyte (1858 - 1922), "Requiem", op. 71 no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Raymond Huntington Woodman (1861 - 1943), "Requiem", published 1932 [ voice and piano ], in Music of Many Lands and Peoples [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 84