Banners?

Anyone know where the phrase "how beautiful with banners" comes from? It's the title of a story by Michael Bishop in the latest issue of Century; the Tangent review of the story, which I just read the other day, noted that it takes its title from a "fairly well-known SF story." And that previous story, which I'd never heard of before, coincidentally just happens to have been published at Sci Fiction this week.

But the phrase sounds like a quotation. Is it?

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