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