I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH.
Alan Seeger, the gifted young •writer Oβ the following poem, was an American whose love of France prompted him, early In the war, to take up arms on her behalf. He was killed in battle at Belloy-en-Santerre In July, and these beautiful and strangely prophetic lines, which were published in the "North American Review," are perhaps the last he ever wrote:— 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. It may bo he shall take my hand And lead mc into this dark land And close my eyes and quench my breatnj It may be I shall pass him, still I have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope of battered W"« When Spring comes round again this yea* And the first meadow flowers appear. God knows 'twere better to be deep Pillowed In silfc and scented oown, Rnt I've a rendezvous wztn JJeatu At midnight 1" 7** l fo Pr n?y e pledKed "o?d am trae, - noTka tilt rende-roos. ..
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 36, 10 February 1917, Page 13
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