Look Down, Fair Moon

"Look Down, Fair Moon" is the tenth song of Daron Aric Hagen's song cycle Echo's Songs.

Date: 1983Composer: Daron Aric HagenText: Walt WhitmanSong Collection: Echo's Songs

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Look Down, Fair Moon
by Walt Whitman

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.

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Echo's Songs

Composer(s): Daron Aric Hagen

Song(s): 1. Never Pain to Tell Thy Love
2. I Am Not Yours
3. A Dream Within a Dream
4. Echo's Song
5. I Am Rose
6. Lost
7. Why Did You Go
8. Since You Went Away
9. Thou Wouldst Be Loved
10. Look Down, Fair Moon
11. The Mild Mother

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