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