...indignation That channels the dry heart deeper And sings through the dry bone. I938 3I0 TO ROSAMOND LEHMANN Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that...incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soiled world. WALT WHITMAN PART ONE The Lighted House 315 The Album 316 The Hunter's Game 3I7 Departure...

...down night's nimbus floods on taces ghastly, swollen, purple ..." (LG 320); or, from another poem, "war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, / . . . the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this...

...could only hope with Whitman, in words that he set in 1 93621 when war was once again threatening, 'that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time...incessantly, softly, wash again and ever again this soiled world'. Between 1918 and 1920, while working on A Pastoral Symphony, Vaughan Williams made extensive...

...only require but not itself achieve. Quoting "Reconciliation" from Sequel to Drum- Taps—"Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost" (Sequel, jjj), Sweet claims: "Discourse itself is represented as possessing the aesthetic power to...

...for an end to divisions in the Union, particularly in the poem "Reconciliation," a term he called the "Word over all, beautiful as the sky! / Beautiful...its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost" (LG Far II, 555-56). Whitman's impetus for this kind of cultural amnesia suggests a desire to forget...

...drums give you music; And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, My heart gives you love. Reconciliation WORD over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that...lost; That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessandy softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world: . . . For my enemy is dead — a man...

...hope takes root in the mortal intimacy between the poem's speaker and his dead enemy: Word over al1 beautiful as the sky. Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must ut time be utterly lost. Thar the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again....

..."Reconciliation" resolutely claims, the mark of the word endures beyond all violence and mortality: "Word over all, beautiful as the sky, / Beautiful...its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost." This is an idea we have encountered in many forms — the hope of the sonnet writer that his work will...

...Death, then, is merely a process of purification and progress of the soul through eternity: "Beautiful that . . . the hands of the sisters Death and Night...softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world." ( "Reconciliation" ) One of the best of Whitman's less well-known poems, "This Compost," is entirely...

...old and pitiful. Their confidence collapsed. "Who will believe it?" said Mary. PART XX THE AGREEMENT Word over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that...softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world. . . . — WALT WHITMAN THE SMOKING CAP I t was the turn of Ida's little boy Horace to bounce up and...