Reconciliation.

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.

RECONCILIATION.

WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must
in time be utterly lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, inces-
santly softly wash again, and ever again, this
soil'd world: …For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is
dead; I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin
—I draw near; I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white
face in the coffin.

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.