id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-199 chapter-199 .txt text/plain 123 8 84 To a Certain Civilian Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me? Did you seek the civilians 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 (I have been born of the same as the war was born, The drum-corps rattle is ever to me sweet music, I love well the martial dirge, With slow wail and convulsive throb leading the officers funeral;) What to such as you anyhow such a poet as I? therefore leave my works, And go lull yourself with what you can understand, and with piano-tunes, For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me. ./cache/chapter-199.txt ./txt/chapter-199.txt