Poems (Seeger)/Last Poems/Resurgam

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2036331Poems — Resurgam1916Alan 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.