Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
1819-1892
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?
DayPoems Poem No. 2035
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2035.html">Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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