Thick-Sprinkled Bunting
1819-1892
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!
DayPoems Poem No. 2145
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2145.html">Thick-Sprinkled Bunting by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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