Walt Whitman – To the East and to the West

To the East and to the West

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, exaltè, previously unknown,
Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in 
 all men.

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