<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535187" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Certain Civilian</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DID YOU ask dulcet rhymes from me?<br> Did you seek the civilian's peaceful and languishing rhymes?<br> Did you find what I sang erewhile so hard to follow?<br> Why I was not singing erewhile for you to follow, to understand--nor<br> am I now;<br> (I have been born of the same as the war was born;<br> The drum-corps' harsh rattle is to me sweet music--I love well the<br> martial dirge,<br> With slow wail, and convulsive throb, leading the officer's funeral:)<br> --What to such as you, anyhow, such a poet as I?--therefore leave my<br> works,<br> And go lull yourself with what you can understand--and with piano-<br> tunes;<br> For I lull nobody--and you will never understand me. 10</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535187" data-title="To A Certain Civilian de Walt Whitman" data-description="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 understand--nor am I now; (I have been b..."></div> </div> </div>

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