For You, O Democracy

By Walt Whitman

1819-1892


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.

DayPoems Poem No. 1920
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1920.html">For You, O Democracy by Walt Whitman</a>

The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor

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