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368 Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every
 * city of These States, inland and seaboard,

And in the fields and woods, and above every keel
 * little or large, that dents the water,

Without edifices, or rules, or trustees, or any argument. The institution of the dear love of comrades.



prairie-grass dividing—its own odor breathing, I demand of it the spiritual corresponding. Demand the most copious and close companionship
 * of men,

Demand the blades to rise of words, acts, beings. Those of the open atmosphere, coarse, sunlit, fresh,
 * nutritious,

Those that go their own gait, erect, stepping with
 * freedom and command—leading, not following.

Those with a never-quell'd audacity—those with
 * sweet and lusty flesh, clear of taint, choice and
 * chary of its love-power,

Those that look carelessly in the faces of Presidents
 * and Governors, as to say, Who are you?

Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrained,
 * never obedient,

Those of inland America.