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AMERICA.1

Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young 
  or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law 
  and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair'd in the adamant of Time. WALT WHITMAN.

Notes

1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]

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