Delicate cluster! flag of teeming life!
Covering all my lands — all my seashores lining!
Flag of death! ( how I watch'd you through the smoke of battle pressing!
How I heard you flap and rustle, cloth defiant! )
Flag cerulean — sunny flag, with the orbs of night dappled!
Ah my silvery beauty — ah my woolly white and crimson!
Ah to sing the song of you, my matron mighty!
My sacred one, my mother.