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		<title>I have a Rendezvous with Death</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the airâ€” 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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a rendezvous with Death<br />
At some disputed barricade,<br />
When Spring comes back with rustling shade<br />
And apple-blossoms fill the airâ€”<br />
I have a rendezvous with Death<br />
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.</p>
<p>It may be he shall take my hand<br />
And lead me into his dark land<br />
And close my eyes and quench my breathâ€”<br />
It may be I shall pass him still.<br />
I have a rendezvous with Death<br />
On some scarred slope of battered hill,<br />
When Spring comes round again this year<br />
And the first meadow-flowers appear.</p>
<p>God knows &#8217;twere better to be deep<br />
Pillowed in silk and scented down,<br />
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,<br />
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,<br />
Where hushed awakenings are dear . . .<br />
But I&#8217;ve a rendezvous with Death</p>
<p>At midnight in some flaming town,<br />
When Spring trips north again this year,<br />
And I to my pledged word am true,<br />
I shall not fail that rendezvous.</p>
<p>                           -Alan Seeger</p>
<p><a href="http://www.poemtree.com/poems/IHaveARendezvousWithDeath.htm">http://www.poemtree.com/poems/IHaveARendezvousWithDeath.htm</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/I+Have+a+Rendezvous+with+Death.htm">http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/I+Have+a+Rendezvous+with+Death.htm</a></p>
<p>I also like how Gears of War 2 tied it into their Trailer:</p>
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