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The poem, "I have a Rendezvous with Death" is by Alan Seeger, who died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st. July, 1916.


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
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.
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
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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from Little Crosses, released November 18, 2018
Written, recorded and produced by Museleon

"I have an Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger (1888 – 1916) read by Peter Yearsley ( LibriVox Weekly Poetry 2006))
- librivox.org

Artwork based on the photograph Tyneside Irish Brigade Advancing 1 July 1916 - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tyne…_July_1916.jpg

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