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LOOK DOWN FAIR MOON.

LOOK down, fair moon, and bathe this scene;

Pour softly down night's nimbus floods, on faces ghast-
ly, swollen, purple;

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

Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.

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