I Have a Rendezvous with Death
Alan Seeger
1888 to 1916
Track 1
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And the first meadow-flowers appear.
I shall not fail that rendezvous.
And lead me into his dark land
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
But I’ve a rendezvous with Death
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
At some disputed barricade,
And I to my pledged word am true,
At midnight in some flaming town,
It may be he shall take my hand
It may be I shall pass him still.
When Spring trips north again this year,
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring comes round again this year
I have a rendezvous with Death
God knows ’twere better to be deep
Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
Where hushed awakenings are dear …
I have a rendezvous with Death
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