From
Leaves of Grass, by
Walt Whitman:
A
promise to
California,
Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to
Puget sound
and
Oregon;
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward 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;
For
these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and
I will also.