December 11, 2004
LIKE KIPLING FOR YANKEES:
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting (Walt Whitman)
THICK-SPRINKLED bunting! Flag of stars!Posted by Orrin Judd at December 11, 2004 7:48 AM
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 born, 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!
Comments
And thereby engender the malice of all tyrants, aristocrats, and their privileged elites.
Posted by: jd watson at December 11, 2004 9:31 AMBummer - I saw the words "Yankees" and "bunting" and I thought it was time for Opening Day already...
Posted by: Foos at December 13, 2004 3:53 PM