BATHED in war's perfume--delicate flag! <br /> (Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,) <br /> O to hear you call the sailors and the soldiers! flag like a <br /> beautiful woman! <br /> O to hear the tramp, tramp, of a million answering men! O the ships <br /> they arm with joy! <br /> O to see you leap and beckon from the tall masts of ships! <br /> O to see you peering down on the sailors on the decks! <br /> Flag like the eyes of women.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bathed-in-war-s-perfume/
