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First Line: Bathed in war's perfume - delicate flag!
Last Line: Flag like the eyes of women.
Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag


Bathed in war's perfume -- delicate flag!
(Should the days needing armies, needing fleets, come again,)
O to hear you call the sailors and the soldiers! flag like
a beautiful woman!
O to hear the tramp, tramp, of a million answering men! O
the ships they arm with joy!
O to see you leap and beckon from the tall masts of ships!
O to see you peering down on the sailors on the decks!
Flag like the eyes of women.





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