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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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NOT YOUTH PERTAINS TO ME.
NOT youth pertains to me, |
Nor delicatesse, I cannot beguile the time with talk, |
Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant, |
In the learn'd coterie sitting constrain'd and still, for learning
inures not to me,
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Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three
things inure to me,
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I have nourish'd the wounded and sooth'd many a dying soldier, |
And at intervals waiting or in the midst of camp, |
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