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Bathed in War’s Perfume

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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