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The most beautiful war poem ever
written was by Walt Whitman.

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It's called "Reconciliation."

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He wrote it at the
end of the Civil War.

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"Word over all,
beautiful as the sky.

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Beautiful that war and
all its deeds of carnage

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must in time be utterly lost,
that the hands of the sisters

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Death and Night incessantly,
softly wash again,

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and ever again,
this soiled world.

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For my enemy is dead.

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A man divine as myself is dead.

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I look where he
lies, white-faced

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and still in the coffin.

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I draw near, bend down, and
touch lightly with my lips

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the white face in the coffin."

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