A Promise to California

A PROMISE to California,
Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and 
 Oregon;
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain,
 to teach robust American love,
For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you,
 inland, and along the Western sea;
For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I 
 will also.