...Seeger, that royal young American enrolled in the foreign legion at the first onset of the war, writes, " I have a rendezvous with death On some scarred slope of battered hill And I to my pledged word am true I shall not fail that rendezvous." Can the church lead an age of martyrs?...

...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...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...

...may be he shall take my hand And lead me into his dark land And close my eyes and quench my breathIt may be I shall pass him still. I have a rendezvous...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...

...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...When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear. Here Nature, so far from relieving the pain of the contemplation, as in Thanatopsis,...

...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...have a rendezvous with Death On some scarred slope or battered hill, When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear. God...

...back blue days and fair. I. 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...When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear. God knows, 't were better to be deep Pillowed in silk and scented down, Where...

...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...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...

...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...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...

...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...When Spring comes round again this year And the first meadow-flowers appear. *Poems by Alan Seeger. With an Introduction by William Archer. New York: Charles...

...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...appear. God knows 'twere better to be deep Pillowed on silk and scented down, Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep, Pulse right to pulse, and breath...