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350 One from Massachusetts shall be comrade to a Missourian, One from Maine or Vermont, and a Carolinian and
 * an Oregonese, shall be friends triune, more precious
 * to each other than all the riches of the
 * earth.

To Michigan shall be wafted perfume from Florida, To the Mannahatta from Cuba or Mexico, Not the perfume of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted
 * beyond death.

No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers, If need be, a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves
 * for one,

The Kanuck shall be willing to lay down his life for
 * the Kansian, and the Kansian for the Kanuck,
 * on due need.

It shall be customary in all directions, in the houses
 * and streets, to see manly affection,

The departing brother or friend shall salute the remaining
 * brother or friend with a kiss.

There shall be innovations, There shall be countless linked hands—namely, the
 * Northeasterner's, and the Northwesterner's, and
 * the Southwesterner's, and those of the interior,
 * and all their brood,

These shall be masters of the world under a new
 * power,

They shall laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder
 * of the world.