A Song

 1
COME, I will make the continent indissoluble; 
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon; 
I will make divine magnetic lands, 
 With the love of comrades, 
 With the life-long love of comrades.

2
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. 

3
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.

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