Not Youth Pertains to Me

  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 learnd coterie sitting constraind 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 nourishd the wounded and soothd many a dying soldier,
  And at intervals waiting or in the midst of camp,
  Composed these songs.