On Alan Seeger's Rendezvous With Death

Alan Seeger wrote of his Rendezvous With Death his prophetic words for him came true He went to war as a young man and death became his due To die young in war as he did part of his life's destiny Though many with this would not agree this is how it seems to me The late President John F Kennedy did love that poem it was often read to him by Jacqueline his wife He too died young under gunfire his destiny in life That we can manipulate our destiny in life some see it in this way Whether this be right or this be wrong is not for me to say Alan Seeger was an adventurous young man a literary person of note He left America when he was young and led the life of a wandering poet His chivalry and sense of adventure led him to the battlefields of Europe the brave often die young His best poems yet not written and his best songs yet not sung Alan Seeger wrote of his Rendezvous With Death near a century ago He was not destined for to grow old for time to become his foe His death a loss to the Literary World to it he had so much to give Suppose only those with some sense of fear to an old age do live.