{"id":158,"date":"2008-10-25T00:14:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T08:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durcan.net\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-10-25T00:14:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T08:14:23","slug":"i-have-a-rendezvous-with-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"I have a Rendezvous with Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a rendezvous with Death<br \/>\nAt some disputed barricade,<br \/>\nWhen Spring comes back with rustling shade<br \/>\nAnd apple-blossoms fill the air\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nI have a rendezvous with Death<br \/>\nWhen Spring brings back blue days and fair.<\/p>\n<p>It may be he shall take my hand<br \/>\nAnd lead me into his dark land<br \/>\nAnd close my eyes and quench my breath\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nIt may be I shall pass him still.<br \/>\nI have a rendezvous with Death<br \/>\nOn some scarred slope of battered hill,<br \/>\nWhen Spring comes round again this year<br \/>\nAnd the first meadow-flowers appear.<\/p>\n<p>God knows &#8217;twere better to be deep<br \/>\nPillowed in silk and scented down,<br \/>\nWhere love throbs out in blissful sleep,<br \/>\nPulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,<br \/>\nWhere hushed awakenings are dear . . .<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;ve a rendezvous with Death<\/p>\n<p>At midnight in some flaming town,<br \/>\nWhen Spring trips north again this year,<br \/>\nAnd I to my pledged word am true,<br \/>\nI shall not fail that rendezvous.<\/p>\n<p>                           -Alan Seeger<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemtree.com\/poems\/IHaveARendezvousWithDeath.htm\">http:\/\/www.poemtree.com\/poems\/IHaveARendezvousWithDeath.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<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>\n<p>I also like how Gears of War 2 tied it into their Trailer:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"853\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xnUgCRVwFUc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;hd=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple-blossoms fill the air\u00e2\u20ac\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,41,44,56],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","tag-death","tag-poem","tag-rendezvous","tag-xbox360"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durcan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}