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Thread #114464 Message #2442541
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
16-Sep-08 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: Poem w/ connection to folk singer
Subject: Poem w/ connection to folk singer
This poem, nearly 100 years old, has connection to a folk music legend. If you know the poet, you'll know the legend. What is the connection? Also, this poem is mentioned in which movie, a political thriller, from about fifteen years ago?
"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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