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Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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DELICATE CLUSTER.
DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life! |
Covering all my lands—all my seashores lining! |
Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle
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How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!) |
Flag cerulean—sunny flag, with the orbs of night dappled! |
Ah my silvery beauty—ah my woolly white and crimson! |
Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty! |
My sacred one, my mother. |
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