Walt Whitman

LEAVES OF GRASS
(1891-92 issue)
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14

 Whoever you are, to you endless announcements!
 
 Daughter of the lands did you wait for your poet?
 Did you wait for one with a flowing mouth and indicative hand?
 Toward the male of the States, and toward the female of the States,
 Exulting words, words to Democracy's lands.
 
 Interlink'd, food-yielding lands!
 Land of coal and iron! land of gold! land of cotton, sugar, rice!
 Land of wheat, beef, pork! land of wool and hemp! land of the apple
 and the grape!
 Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the world! land of
 those sweet-air'd interminable plateaus!
 Land of the herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie!
 Lands where the north-west Columbia winds, and where the south-west
 Colorado winds!
 Land of the eastern Chesapeake! land of the Delaware!
 Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan!
 Land of the Old Thirteen! Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and
 Connecticut!
 Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks!
 Land of boatmen and sailors! fishermen's land!
 Inextricable lands! the clutch'd together! the passionate ones!
 The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limb'd!
 The great women's land! the feminine! the experienced sisters and
 the inexperienced sisters!
 Far breath'd land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez'd! the diverse! the
 compact!
 The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian!
 O all and each well-loved by me! my (...)
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