Word: seeger
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...stuttering rifles' rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons." But Owen never learned that he had penned some of the most celebrated verse to come out of World War I: he was killed in action on the Western Front a week before the Armistice. A similar fate met Alan Seeger, an American who joined the French Foreign Legion when the war broke out and was killed in France fighting Germans in 1916--shortly after writing his poem I Have a Rendezvous with Death. The verse begins, "I have a rendezvous with Death/At some disputed barricade" and ends...