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Flag of Stars, Thick-Sprinkled Bunting

FLAG OF STARS, THICK-SPRINKLED 
  BUNTING.

FLAG of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting! 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 unrivall'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!
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