1994

Requiem

"Requiem" was composed in 1994 by Jonathan Bailey Holland and is a musical setting of a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. The setting is scored for high voice and piano.

Text

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.