Walt Whitman, 1819 -

For You Democracy


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 love of comrades,
With the life-long love of comrades

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of Amerca,
and along he shores of the great lakes, and all over the praries,
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.