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Delicate Cluster.

Part of the cluster BATHED IN WAR'S PERFUME.

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! How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!) Flag cerulean! sunny flag! with the orbs of night dap- 
 pled! Ah my silvery beauty! ah my woolly white and crim- 
 son! Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty! My sacred one, my mother.

Part of the cluster BATHED IN WAR'S PERFUME.

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