Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman

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A PROMISE to California,

Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and
Oregon;

Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain,
to teach robust American love,

For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you,
inland, and along the Western sea;

For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I
will also.

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