And then we'll begin the war.

然后我们开始讲战争
We'll talk about comparative strengths and so on.

我们将讨论相对优势等等
But let me leave you for today and the weekend,

今天和这周末我要留给你们的
if you don't mind, with Walt Whitman again.

还是瓦尔特惠特曼
Whitman's opening poem of his immortal collection called Drum Taps,

惠特曼的不朽诗篇集《桴鼓集》开幕
in a kind of agonizing way may have captured

以一种痛苦的方式抓住了
what was in the heads of most Americans in 1861.

1861年大部分美国人头脑中所想的
"To the drum-taps prompt, "He writes,

"迅速响应哒哒的鼓声" 他写到
"The young men falling in and arming;

"青年们立即集合开始武装
the mechanics arming,the trowel, the jack-plane,

机械工武装着把泥铲大刨
the blacksmith's hammer, tost aside with precipitation;

铁匠的锤子仓卒地扔在一旁
The blood of the city is up--

城市的血液沸腾了