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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 my-          self;

Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baf-          fled?

And sullen hymns of defeat?

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