Love of Comrades (Poem by Walter Whitman)

Love of Comrades (1)

By Walter Whitman

    Come, 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,

        With the love of comrades,

            With the life-long love of comrades.

Love of Comrades (2)

    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;

        By the love of comrades,

            By the manly love of comrades.

Love of Comrades (3)

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

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

        In the love of comrades,

            In the high-towering love of comrades.