Year That Trembled

uswritten by Walt Whitman

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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Kosmos

uswritten by Walt Whitman, published on Mon 02.05.2007 at 11:38

WHO includes diversity, and is Nature,
Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality

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