Leaves of Grass (1882)/Drum-Taps/Look Down Fair Moon

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3470530Leaves of Grass (1882) — Look Down Fair MoonWalt Whitman


LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON.

Look down fair moon and bathe this scene,
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple,
On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide,
Pour down your unstinted nimbus sacred moon.