For You O Democracy

by Walt Whitman · 1881-1882
Published 01/07/1881

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.

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