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Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me.

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.

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 my- 
 self; Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baf- 
 fled? And sullen hymns of defeat?

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.

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