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