THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars!
Long yet your road, fateful flag!-long yet your road, and lined with bloody death!
For the prize I see at issue, at last is the world!
All its ships and shores I see, interwoven with your threads, greedy banner!
-Dream’d again the flags of kings, highest born, to flaunt unrival’d?
O hasten, flag of man! O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags of kings,
Walk supreme to the heavens, mighty symbol-run up above them all,
Flag of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting!
(Walt Whitman)
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