From
Leaves of Grass, by
Walt Whitman:
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.