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Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
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A SONG.
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| COME, I will make the continent indissoluble; |
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet
shone upon;
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| 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;
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I will make inseparable cities, with their arms about
each other's necks;
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| By the manly love of comrades. |
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For you these, from me, O Democracy, to serve you,
ma femme!
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| For you! for you, I am trilling these songs, |
| In the high-towering love of comrades. |
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