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 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. + 