REQUIEMUnder 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 long'd to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, Robert Louis Stevenson
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This poem is about the death of Nelson Mandela. The final two stanzas are about his desire to return home, his wish to be buried in his homeland, in South Africa.

Source: Selected Poems

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