I was watching the videos on YouTube of Jessica Watson's homecoming to Sydney in May, and I noticed that her mother, as Jessica stepped off of Ella's Pink Lady, said "Home is the sailor, home from the sea." It was such a perfect line for the moment and I knew I had heard it from a poem before so I had to look it up to refresh my memory of it's origin. Turns out it is from a lovely Robert Lewis Stevenson poem, which I put here:
Requiem
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie
Gladly 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 long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter, home from the hill."
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