Lyric Poem · Nature

Look Down, Fair Moon

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1LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene;

2Pour softly down night’s nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple;

3On the dead, on their backs, with their arms toss’d wide,

4Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.

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“Look Down, Fair Moon” by Walt Whitman — quilloak.com/poems/look-down-fair-moon

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Author record: Walt Whitman1819–1892
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