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always! Always me joined with you, whoever you are! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless
 * delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields
 * of Alabama and Texas!

Always California's golden hills and hollows—and
 * the silver mountains of New Mexico! Always
 * soft-breath'd Cuba!

Always the vast slope drained by the Southern Sea
 * —inseparable with the slopes drained by the
 * Eastern and Western Seas,

The area the Eighty-third year of These States—the
 * three and a half millions of square miles,

The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast
 * on the main—the thirty thousand miles
 * of river navigation,

The seven millions of distinct families, and the same
 * number of dwellings—Always these and more,
 * branching forth into numberless branches;

Always the free range and diversity! Always the
 * continent of Democracy!

Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities,
 * travellers, Kanada, the snows;

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