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To the East and to the West.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST.

TO the East and to the West; To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania, To the Kanadian of the North—to the Southerner I  
 love; These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself—the  
 germs are in all men; I believe the main purport of These States is to found  
 a superb friendship, exalt, previously unknown, Because I perceive it waits, and has been always wait- 
 ing, latent in all men.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

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