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Sounds like this (Requiem by Robert Heinlein) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_%28short_story%29
Love this poem from that story : 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 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.
thenewgreen · 4654 days ago · link ·
Beautiful poem and the story by Heinlein sounds really interesting. Have you read it and would you recommend? Great work digging that up.
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briandmyers · 4654 days ago · link ·
Read it many years ago. All Heinlein is worth a read. The poem (also 'Requiem') is by Robert Louis Stevenson, and it is the epitaph on his grave in Samoa, where he lived the final days of his life.