BY THOMAS B. HARNED AND HORACE L. TRAUBEL SURVIVING LITERARY EXECUTORS OF WALT WHITMAN

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This little volume of poems, selected from the complete edition published by us, is issued with the approval of the Whitman Executors, T. B. Harned and Horace Traubel, holders of the copyright. With one exception each poem here printed is complete.

 The Publishers. 

The Publishers.

Epilogue

I

POEMS OF WAR

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THICK-SPRINKLED BUNTING

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!

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