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.