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18 Lands where the northwest Columbia winds, and
 * where the southwest Colorado winds!

Land of the 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 many oceans! Land of sierras and peaks! Land of boatmen and sailors! Fishermen's land! Inextricable lands! the clutched together! the
 * passionate lovers!

The side by side! the elder and younger brothers!
 * the bony-limbed!

The great women's land! the feminine! the experienced
 * sisters and the inexperienced sisters!

Far breath'd land! Arctic braced! Mexican breezed!
 * the diverse! the compact!

The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double
 * Carolinian!

O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations!
 * O I cannot be discharged from you!

O Death! for all that, I am yet of you, unseen,
 * this hour, with irrepressible love,

Walking New England, a friend, a traveller, Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer
 * ripples, on Paumanok's sands.

Crossing the prairies—dwelling again in Chicago—
 * dwelling in many towns,

Observing shows, births, improvements, structures,
 * arts,

Listening to the orators and the oratresses in public
 * halls,

Of and through The States, as during life— each
 * man and woman my neighbor,