THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars! <br /> Long yet your road, fateful flag!--long yet your road, and lined with <br /> bloody death! <br /> For the prize I see at issue, at last is the world! <br /> All its ships and shores I see, interwoven with your threads, greedy <br /> banner! <br /> --Dream'd again the flags of kings, highest born, to flaunt <br /> unrival'd? <br /> O hasten, flag of man! O with sure and steady step, passing highest <br /> flags of kings, <br /> Walk supreme to the heavens, mighty symbol--run up above them all, <br /> Flag of stars! thick-sprinkled bunting!<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/thick-sprinkled-bunting/
