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* '''howe!:''' (''interjection'') (1) a sailors’ cry when heaving the anchor up (2) a cry of pain or grief | * '''howe!:''' (''interjection'') (1) a sailors’ cry when heaving the anchor up (2) a cry of pain or grief | ||
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| + | * '''''Requiem'':''' a short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson: | ||
| + | :Under the wide and starry sky,<br> | ||
| + | :Dig the grave and let me lie.<br> | ||
| + | :Glad did I live and gladly die,<br> | ||
| + | :And I laid me down with a will.<br> | ||
| + | :<br> | ||
| + | :This be the verse you grave for me:<br> | ||
| + | :Here he lies where he longed to be;<br> | ||
| + | :Home is the sailor, home from sea,<br> | ||
| + | :And the hunter home from the hill.<br> | ||
Revision as of 09:27, 8 May 2011
- home
- Howe: site of Norse Thingmote (parliament) in Dublin
- howe: (1) a hill (2) a tumulus, barrow → from the Old Norse haug-r (mounds), as the Scandinavian kings of Dublin were buried on the site of the Thingmote
- howe!: (interjection) (1) a sailors’ cry when heaving the anchor up (2) a cry of pain or grief
- Requiem: a short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson:
- 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.
