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WALT WHITMAN'S DRUM -TAPS. New-York. 1865.

SEQUEL TO DRUM-TAPS. (SINCE THE PRECEDING CAME FROM THE PRESS.) WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOOR-YARD BLOOM'D. AND OTHER PIECES.WASHINGTON. 1865-6.

LEAVES OF GRASS. SONGS BEFORE PARTING.

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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;
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-     fled?
And sullen hymns of defeat?

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YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME.

YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D
BENEATH ME.