object:1.whitman - To A Certain Civilian
author class:Walt Whitman
subject class:Poetry
book class:Whitman - Poems
class:chapter
DID YOU ask dulcet rhymes from me?
Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes?
Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?
Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understandnor
am I now;
(I have been born of the same as the war was born;
The drum-corps' harsh rattle is to me sweet musicI love well the
martial dirge,
With slow wail, and convulsive throb, leading the officer's funeral
What to such as you, anyhow, such a poet as I?therefore leave my
works,
And go lull yourself with what you can understandand with piano-
tunes;
For I lull nobodyand you will never understand me.
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