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Rh With firm and regular step they wend—they
 * never stop,

Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part and passing on, And another generation playing its part and passing
 * on in its turn,

With faces turned sideways or backward toward me
 * to listen,

With eyes retrospective toward me.

Americanos! Masters! Marches humanitarian! Foremost! Century marches! Libertad! Masses! For you a programme of chants.

Chants of the prairies, Chants of the long-running Mississippi, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
 * and Minnesota,

Inland chants—chants of Kanzas, Chants away down to Mexico, and up north to
 * Oregon—Kanadian chants,

Chants of teeming and turbulent cities—chants of
 * mechanics,

Yankee chants—Pennsylvanian chants—chants of
 * Kentucky and Tennessee,

Chants of dim-lit mines—chants of mountain-tops, Chants of sailors—chants of the Eastern Sea and the
 * Western Sea,

Chants of the Mannahatta, the place of my dearest
 * love, the place surrounded by hurried and
 * sparkling currents.

Health chants—joy chants—robust chants of young
 * men,