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.
(Look Down Fair
Moon 453)
Image ID: LC-DIG-cwpb-01097
Antietam, Md. Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown
road
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