The poem, Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson, was one that McCain reportedly read at his own father's funeral. And the hunter home from the hill. John McCain's father, John Sidney McCain Jr., was ...

This time the exile is Robert Louis Stevenson, recalling the land of his forebears from his last redoubt in the South Seas. S R Crockett was his friend and fellow novelist. RLS’s short Requiem ...