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FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY.

COME, I will make the continent indissoluble,

I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon,

I will make divine magnetic lands,          With the love of comrades,          With the life-long love of comrades.

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of          America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all          over the prairies,

I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's          necks,          By the love of comrades,          By the manly love of comrades.

For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme!

For you, for you I am trilling these songs.

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