YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me! <br /> Your summer wind was warm enough--yet the air I breathed froze me; <br /> A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me; <br /> Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself; <br /> Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled? <br /> And sullen hymns of defeat?<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/year-that-trembled/
