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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 myself, Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled? And sullen hymns of defeat?

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.

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