Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me
by Walt Whitman
· 1865
Published 01/07/1865
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 baf-fledbaffled?
And sullen hymns of defeat?