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FOR YOU O DEMOCRACY by WALT WHITMAN

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First Line: COME, I WILL MAKE THE CONTINENT INDISSOLUBLE
Last Line: FOR YOU, FOR YOU I AM TRILLING THESE SONGS.
Subject(s): DEMOCRACY; FREEDOM; PATRIOTISM; LIBERTY;

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.



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