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richard mitchley - walt whitman - 1861 lyrics

arm’d year! year of the struggle!
no dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year!
not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisping cadenzas piano;
but as a strong man, erect, clothed in blue clothes, advancing, carrying a rifle on your shoulder
with well+gristled body and sunburnt face and hands—with a knife in the belt at your side
as i heard you shouting loud—your sonorous voice ringing across the continent;
your masculine voice, o year, as rising amid the great cities
amid the men of manhattan i saw you, as one of the workmen, the dwellers in manhattan;
or with large steps crossing the prairies out of illinois and indiana
rapidly crossing the west with springy gait, and descending the alleghanies;
or down from the great lakes, or in pennsylvania, or on deck along the ohio river;
or southward along the tennessee or cumberland rivers, or at chattanooga on the mountain top
saw i your gait and saw i your sinewy limbs, clothed in blue, bearing weapons, robust year;
heard your determin’d voice, launch’d forth again and again;
year that suddenly sang by the mouths of the round+lipp’d cannon
i repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year

- richard mitchley lyrics

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