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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 161 of 382 · Drum-Taps

Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me

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Year that trembled and reel’d beneath me! Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed froze me, A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken’d me, Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself, Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled? And sullen hymns of defeat?

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