"I love to think that if my blood should be So privileged to sink where his has sunk, I shall not pass from Earth entirely But when the banquet rings, when healths are drunk,"
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Alan Seeger
(22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the , serving in the . Seeger was the brother of , a children's author and educator, and Charles Seeger, an American pacifist and musicologist; he was also the uncle of folk musicians , , and . He is known for the poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death", a favorite of President John F. Kennedy.
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