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Show WAR'S GREATEST POEM "I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS REN-DEZVOUS WITH DEATH." Renders of The Sun who hnvc n taste for the unusual, the remarkable or the wonderful, will appreciate the poem here printed. Snvc it rend it to friends. The mental picture thnt it awakens is far beyond what any other poem of the war can do. It is a masterpiece. For tho benefit of such readers as are not yet acquainted with the circumstances of this wonderful stroke of genius, The Sun is glad to tell the Btory. Alnn Secgcr was a young American who enlisted en-listed in the French Foreign Legion in 1015. He went through some of the most severe battles of the wnr, and (wrotc poetry in the trenches. At thnt time the great drive of the spring of 1016 was talked about, and young Secgcr had a presentiment pre-sentiment that he would not survive it. He accordingly wrote the poem and mailed It to a friend in America. In the spring of 1016 Secgcr was killed in battle. I lme n irhilon mi wild Doitli. At Mime illnptitril iHirilt'iiilp. Wlii'ii Hprlntf form Imck with ruxtllm Mimic Anil npptn lilontomii (III ttm iilr I Imv. n rnuYxiiurt with Diiilh Whin HprlnK hrlnitH hnik liluc ilityn nrnl fhlr. It mn) In- hi clmll tnlf my hum Ami li'inl iilr Into lil iliirk Innil Ami clow m r)it unit ticnch my lirmith II inn) ho I fliall pniM him, ellll. I Iiiim- n ri'tiili'iNiHiH with Doiilh (in iHinic mii r roil topw of linltGril hill, When HptlnK cnmi'K niuml nicnlii thin yiiir Ami thi flnt mi-niliiw flowrii npponr. (toil knowM 'tir Ipi'tler to In ileup I'llloweil In fllk nml "! nt oil ilnwii. WIhti' liv- throlm out In lillnnfiil hImp. . I'lilwi nlRh to pill""', nml lirnlh to hrMtth, Whrro hnnhxil nwitkcnlnm iiro ih-nr Hut l'e n rrniti'tvouN with Dfittli Al ntlilttlKhl In koiih- fin in I im town. When Kprlim Irlp" north nun In thin jtiir. Ami I to in iilnlui' wonl nm true. I chilli nut full Hint ri'iuliXMHii". |