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Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
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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.
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And at intervals, waiting, or in the midst of camp, |
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