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Silverado illustrations and
calligraphy © 2001, 2002 Levenger.
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‘Requiem’ in full
One of his best-known poems,
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Requiem” is also one of the most elliptically
cited. The second stanza is missing in most anthologies. And in the penultimate
line, “the” is almost always inserted before “sea,” even though that’s
not how Stevenson wrote it.
James Winegar, the
director of the Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, where Stevenson is buried, shared with us a copy of the
original “Requiem,” in the author’s own hand.
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