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YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And sullen hymns of defeat?
Subject(s): Grief


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?





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