What exactly is this quote saying??

Question

PARTICULARY THE LAST TWO LINES!

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 the sea,

And the hunter home from the hill.

Answer 1

i think a sailor, or a hunter dies, and as he is dying he is saying how he is happy to live and  die

Answer 2

the poem is basically saying what it speaks of in the first stanza death... the last two lines in which the author refers to "home" s/he's referring to heaven in which people go "home" to after they die.

Answer 3

man your guess is bout as good as mine i have no clue :(

Answer 4

It's an epitaph. He was a sailor, he came home, he died and he was buried. He was also a hunter.

Answer 5

Well since a sailor is out at sea all the time I'm guessing that theres a place where they belong.  Home.  They're home isnt' the sea and their home isn't the hills or woods.  It should be proper burial you know?  I hope this helps!

Answer 6

his time has come and he is ready to go home.