The Walt Whitman Archive
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A PROMISE TO CALIFORNIA.
A PROMISE to California,
Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward
you, to remain, to teach robust American love;
you, to remain, to teach robust American love;
For I know very well that I and robust love belong
among you, inland, and along the Western Sea;
among you, inland, and along the Western Sea;
For These States tend inland, and toward the Western
Sea—and I will also.
Sea—and I will also.