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America[ii]
[I. POEMS OF WAR]
Thick-Sprinkled Bunting[3]
Beat! Beat! Drums![4]
City of Ships[6]
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown[7]
Come Up From the Fields Father[9]
A Twilight Song[12]
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim[14]
Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me[16]
First O Songs for a Prelude[17]
Song of the Banner at Daybreak[21]
The Dying Veteran[31]
The Wound-Dresser[32]
Dirge for Two Veterans[37]
From Far Dakota's Cañons[39]
Old War-Dreams[41]
Delicate Cluster[42]
To a Certain Civilian[43]
Adieu to a Soldier[44]
Long, Too Long America[45]
[II. POEMS OF AFTER-WAR]
Weave In, My Hardy Life[49]
How Solemn as One by One[50]
Spirit Whose Work Is Done[51]
The Return of the Heroes[53]
Memories of President Lincoln
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd[62]
O Captain! My Captain![76]
Hush'd be the Camps To-day[78]
Ashes of Soldiers[79]
Pensive on her Dead Gazing[82]
[III. POEMS OF AMERICA]
I Hear America Singing[87]
Pioneers! O Pioneers![88]
Song of the Broad-axe[95]
Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun[113]
Faces[116]
O Magnet-South[118]
By Broad Potomac's Shore[121]
Our Old Feuillage![122]
A Broadway Pageant[131]
The Prairie States[137]
[IV. POEMS OF DEMOCRACY]
To Foreign Lands[141]
To Thee Old Cause[142]
For You O Democracy[143]
Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood[144]
What Best I See in Thee[153]
As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days[154]
The United States to Old World Critics[156]
Years of the Modern[157]
O Star of France[158]
Thoughts[161]
By Blue Ontario's Shore[164]
Epilogue: Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps[191]

I

POEMS OF WAR


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!