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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.
Alan Seeger
Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in
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