Bathed in War's Perfume
Read 'Bathed in War's Perfume' by 'Walt Whitman' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Bathed in War's Perfume by Walt Whitman
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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