A Song

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

A SONG.

1

COME, I will make the continent indissoluble; I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet
shone upon; I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades,
With the life-long love of comrades.

2

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. E [ begin page 126 ]

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3

For you these, from me, O Democracy, to serve you,
ma femme! For you! for you, I am trilling these songs,
In the love of comrades,
In the high-towering love of comrades.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.