I Have a Rendezvous with Death
Alan Seeger
1888 to 1916
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I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms ______ the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When ______ brings back blue days and fair.
It may be ______ shall take my hand
And lead me into his ______ land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
______ may be I shall pass him still.
I have ______ rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the ______ meadow-flowers appear.
God knows ’twere better to be deep
______ in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out ______ blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear …
But I’ve a ______ with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When ______ trips north again this year,
And I to my ______ word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.