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Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
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DELICATE CLUSTER.
| DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life! |
| Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! |
Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke
of battle pressing!
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| How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!) |
Flag cerulean! sunny flag! with the orbs of night dap-
pled!
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Ah my silvery beauty! ah my woolly white and crim-
son!
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| Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty! |
| My sacred one, my mother. |
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