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.