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, incessantly 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.
Walt Whitman (American 1819-1892)
What can one say? Man's efforts in this world are foiled , war has always been a part of life, Walt Whitman was an eye witness of the Civil War, a bloody, unforgiving war, that pitted brother against brother; Cain, see what you started?
J J.
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