Leaves of Grass (1867)
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |