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Sonnet VII

By Alan Seeger

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To me, a pilgrim on that journey bound     Whose stations Beauty's bright examples are,     As of a silken city famed afar     Over the sands for wealth and holy ground,     Came the report of one - a woman crowned     With all perfection, blemishless and high,     As the full moon amid the moonlit sky,     With the world's praise and wonder clad around.     And I who held this notion of success:     To leave no form of Nature's loveliness     Unworshipped, if glad eyes have access there, -     Beyond all earthly bounds have made my goal     To find where that sweet shrine is and extol     The hand that triumphed in a work so fair.

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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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