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!