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Rh The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face
 * lightly,

The dependence of Liberty shall be lovers, The continuance of Equality shall be comrades.

These shall tie and band stronger than hoops of iron, I, extatic, O partners! O lands! henceforth with the
 * love of lovers tie you.

I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet
 * shone upon,

I will make divine magnetic lands.

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the
 * rivers of America, and along the shores of the
 * great lakes, and all over the prairies,

I will make inseparable cities, with their arms about
 * each other's necks.

For you these, from me, O Democracy, to serve you,
 * ma femme!

For you! for you, I am trilling these songs.



heaving from my ribbed breast only, Not in sighs at night, in rage, dissatisfied with myself, Not in those long-drawn, ill-suppressed sighs, Not in many an oath and promise broken, Not in my wilful and savage soul's volition,