| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 7407 |
| AUTHOR: | Walt Whitman (18191892) |
| QUOTATION: | 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 soiled world. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Drum-Taps. Reconciliation. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Walt Whitman Collection. |
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