The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls

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     Here he lies where he longed to be;
     Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
     And the hunter home from the hill."

[Illustration: The tomb of Stevenson on Vaea Mountain]

On the other side, written in Samoan and surrounded by carvings of
thistles, his native flowers, and the hibiscus flowers, emblem of the
South, are the words from the Bible:

  "Whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge;
  thy people shall be my people; and thy God my God; where thou diest
  will I die, and there will I be buried."

The Samoan chiefs have forbidden the use of firearms upon Vaea hillside,
"that the birds may live there undisturbed, and raise above his grave
the songs he loved so well."