259. Now When the Number of My Years by Robert Louis Stevenson
b'Stevenson read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nNow When the Number of My Years\\nby Robert Louis Stevenson(1850 \\u2013 1894)\\n\\nNow when the number of my years\\nIs all fulfilled, and I\\nFrom sedentary life\\nShall rouse me up to die,\\nBury me low and let me lie\\nUnder the wide and starry sky.\\nJoying to live, I joyed to die,\\nBury me low and let me lie.\\n\\nClear was my soul, my deeds were free,\\nHonour was called my name,\\nI fell not back from fear\\nNor followed after fame.\\nBury me low and let me lie\\nUnder the wide and starry sky.\\nJoying to live, I joyed to die,\\nBury me low and let me lie.\\n\\nBury me low in valleys green\\nAnd where the milder breeze\\nBlows fresh along the stream,\\nSings roundly in the trees -\\nBury me low and let me lie\\nUnder the wide and starry sky.\\nJoying to live, I joyed to die,\\nBury me low and let me lie.\\n\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'