Saturday, December 03, 2005
Today in Scots History
An important day in Scottish history today, on this date in 1894 the novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson died of a brain hemorrhage in Samoa.
Natives carried him up a hill and buried him on the side of a volcano. Fourteen years earlier when he was ill in California Stevenson composed his own epitath in a poem titled Requiem.
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me die.
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 the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
A shot of Scots' whisky in his honor today.
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