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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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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, |
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I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. |
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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, |
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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. |