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Poems by Walt Whitman

by Walt Whitman

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Love of Comrades

1.

Come, I will make the continent indissoluble;
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon!
I will make divine magnetic lands,
        With the love of comrades,
          With the life-long love of comrades.

2.

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.

3.

For you these, from me, O Democracy, to serve you, ma femme!
For you! for you, I am trilling these songs,
        In the love of comrades,
          In the high-towering love of comrades.

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