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Thick-Sprinkled Bunting.

Part of the cluster BATHED IN WAR'S PERFUME.

Thick-Sprinkled Bunting.

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 borne, 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!

Part of the cluster BATHED IN WAR'S PERFUME.

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