As I sit writing here, sick and grown
     old,
Not my least burden is that dulness of
     the years, querilities,
Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy,
     constipation, whimpering ennui,
May filter my daily songs.

(As I Sit Writing Here 614)
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Walt Whitman, June 1887