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Home: Poetry: Walt Whitman: For You, O Democracy
| FOR YOU, O DEMOCRACY |
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a poem by Walt Whitman
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- 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.
| "For You, O Democracy" is reprinted from Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman. Brooklyn: Fowler & Wells, 1856. |
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