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Calamus 35

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

35.

TO you of New England, 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, exalté, 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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