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Walt Whitman - Not Youth Pertains To Me
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NOT youth pertains to me,
Nor delicatesse—I cannot beguile the time with talk;
Awkward in the parlor, neither a dancer nor elegant;
In the learn`d coterie sitting constrain`d and still—for learning.
         inures not to me;
Beauty, knowledge, inure not to me—yet there are two or three things
         inure to me;
I have nourish`d the wounded, and sooth`d many a dying soldier,
And at intervals, waiting, or in the midst of camp,
Composed these songs.
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