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For You O Democracy.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY.

COME, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make divine magnetic lands,  
 With the love of comrades,  
 With the life-long love of comrades. 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. For you these from me, O Democracy, to serve you ma femme! For you, for you I am trilling these songs.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

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