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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME.
| YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me! |
Your summer wind was warm enough, yet the air I breathed
froze me,
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| 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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