Kyrenaikos Poem by Alan Seeger

Kyrenaikos

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Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down
In grove and garden to the sapphire sea;
Twine yellow roses for the drinker's crown;
Let music reach and fair heads circle me,
Watching blue ocean where the white sails steer
Fruit-laden forth or with the wares and news
Of merchant cities seek our harbors here,
Careless how Corinth fares, how Syracuse;
But here, with love and sleep in her caress,
Warm night shall sink and utterly persuade
The gentle doctrine Aristippus bare, --
Night-winds, and one whose white youth's loveliness,
In a flowered balcony beside me laid,
Dreams, with the starlight on her fragrant hair.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Susan Williams 07 December 2015

Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down In grove and garden to the sapphire sea; - - I hope they laid him down in such a place for young soldiers who die so young and in such moments of loud confusion and fear

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Alan Seeger

Alan Seeger

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