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Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.

136. 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 their arms toss’d wide,

Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.