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.
Text from gutenberg.org. Public domain in the US and UK.
Where it comes in the service
At a Catholic funeral Mass the readings must come from Scripture, so a poem belongs at the vigil or in the words of remembrance. A Church of England funeral can include poetry; the Church prints poems on its own funeral planning page. In a humanist ceremony, readings of poetry and prose follow the tribute.
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Requiem is in the public domain in the United States (first published 1887) and in the United Kingdom (author died 1894), so the words can be printed in a booklet without permission or a fee.
Printed here as in the source, except: Removed the italic markup (underscores) from the last three lines, which are italic in the source as the epitaph.