To The East And To The West

Walt Whitman

   TO the East and to the West;
   To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,
   To the Kanadian of the North--to the Southerner I love;
   These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself--the germs are in
         all men;
   I believe the main purport of These States is to found a superb
         friendship, exalt, previously unknown,
   Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in
         all men.

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