Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me (1865)

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Written By Walt Whitman

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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?

Walt Whitman
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