JaggedSac on 24 August 2008
I don't know about any of you guys, but..... I have a rendezvous with death:
| Alan Seeger. 1888–1916 |
| 121. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" |
| I HAVE a rendezvous with Death | |
| At some disputed barricade, | |
| When Spring comes back with rustling shade | |
| And apple-blossoms fill the air— | |
| I have a rendezvous with Death | 5 |
| When Spring brings back blue days and fair. | |
| 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. | 10 |
| 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. | |
| God knows 'twere better to be deep | 15 |
| 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 | 20 |
| 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. |
