"A Song" , 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,
In the love of comrades,
In the high-towering love of comrades.