Poem by Alan Seeger

Resurgam

Exiled afar from youth and happy love,
 If Death should ravish my fond spirit hence
I have no doubt but, like a homing dove,
 It would return to its dear residence,
And through a thousand stars find out the road
Back into earthly flesh that was its loved abode.

1. Thirty Sonnets. 19. Vivien
2. Thirty Sonnets. 21. Virginibus Puerisque
3. Thirty Sonnets. 28. On the Cliffs, Newport
4. Broceliande
5. Sonnet 9. Well, seeing I have no hope, then let us part

Bliss Carman Resurgam ("Lo, now comes the April pageant")

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