
— Alan Seeger poeta statunitense 1888 - 1916
It may be he shall take my hand | And lead me into his dark land | And close my eyes and quench my breath ... || But I've a rendezvous with Death | At midnight in some flaming town, | When springs trips north again this year, | And I to my pledged word am true, | I shall not fail this rendezvous.
Origine: Questa era la poesia preferita da John Fitzgerald Kennedy, secondo quanto riferisce il suo biografo Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (I mille giorni di John F. Kennedy, Rizzoli editore, Milano, 1966, pag. 120)