DELICATE cluster! flag of teeming life! <br /> Covering all my lands! all my sea-shores lining! <br /> Flag of death! (how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle <br /> pressing! <br /> How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant!) <br /> Flag cerulean! sunny flag! with the orbs of night dappled! <br /> Ah my silvery beauty! ah my woolly white and crimson! <br /> Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty! <br /> My sacred one, my mother.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/delicate-cluster/
