The Walt Whitman Archive
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30.
A PROMISE and gift to California,
Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for Oregon:
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel to you,
to remain, to teach robust American love;
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,
among you, inland, and along the Western
Sea,
For These States tend inland, and toward the Western
Sea—and I will also.
Sea—and I will also.