1983
Look Down, Fair Moon
Composed by
Daron Aric Hagen
Daron Aric Hagen Text by
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Echo’s Songs Song Collection
"Look Down, Fair Moon" is the tenth song of Daron Aric Hagen's song cycle Echo's Songs.
Text
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.
Related Information
The Hampsong Foundation
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Echo’s Songs
Daron Aric Hagen
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
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