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