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Oneata

By Alan Seeger

Topics: classic

A hilltop sought by every soothing breeze     That loves the melody of murmuring boughs,     Cool shades, green acreage, and antique house     Fronting the ocean and the dawn; than these     Old monks built never for the spirit's ease     Cloisters more calm - not Cluny nor Clairvaux;     Sweet are the noises from the bay below,     And cuckoos calling in the tulip-trees.     Here, a yet empty suitor in thy train,     Beloved Poesy, great joy was mine     To while a listless spell of summer days,     Happier than hoarder in each evening's gain,     When evenings found me richer by one line,     One verse well turned, or serviceable phrase.

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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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