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A PROMISE and gift to California,

Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:

Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel to you,          to remain, to teach robust American love;

For I know very well that I and robust love belong          among you, inland, and along the Western          Sea,

For These States tend inland, and toward the Western          Sea—and I will also.

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