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Kyrenaikos

By Alan Seeger

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Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down     In grove and garden to the sapphire sea;     Twine yellow roses for the drinker's crown;     Let music reach and fair heads circle me,     Watching blue ocean where the white sails steer     Fruit-laden forth or with the wares and news     Of merchant cities seek our harbors here,     Careless how Corinth fares, how Syracuse;     But here, with love and sleep in her caress,     Warm night shall sink and utterly persuade     The gentle doctrine Aristippus bare, -     Night-winds, and one whose white youth's loveliness,     In a flowered balcony beside me laid,     Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.

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About Alan Seeger

Alan Seeger (1888–1916) was an American poet who fought in the French Foreign Legion during World War I. His poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" is one of the most famous war poems, and he was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme.

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