I Have a Rendezvous with Death E-book

                                      1916 

                         I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH

                                 by Alan Seeger








Electronically Enhanced Text (c) Copyright 1996, World Library(R)



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