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