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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535143" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>States!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">STATES!<br> Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers?<br> By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Away!<br> I arrive, bringing these, beyond all the forces of courts and arms,<br> These! to hold you together as firmly as the earth itself is held<br> together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The old breath of life, ever new,<br> Here! I pass it by contact to you, America.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> O mother! have you done much for me?<br> Behold, there shall from me be much done for you.  10</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There shall from me be a new friendship--It shall be called after my<br> name,<br> It shall circulate through The States, indifferent of place,<br> It shall twist and intertwist them through and around each other--<br> Compact shall they be, showing new signs,<br> Affection shall solve every one of the problems of freedom,<br> Those who love each other shall be invincible,<br> They shall finally make America completely victorious, in my name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> One from Massachusetts shall be comrade to a Missourian,<br> One from Maine or Vermont, and a Carolinian and an Oregonese, shall<br> be friends triune, more precious to each other than all the<br> riches of the earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> To Michigan shall be wafted perfume from Florida,<br> To the Mannahatta from Cuba or Mexico,  20<br> Not the perfume of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers,<br> If need be, a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one,<br> The Kanuck shall be willing to lay down his life for the Kansian, and<br> the Kansian for the Kanuck, on due need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> It shall be customary in all directions, in the houses and streets,<br> to see manly affection,<br> The departing brother or friend shall salute the remaining brother or<br> friend with a kiss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There shall be innovations,<br> There shall be countless linked hands--namely, the Northeasterner's,<br> and the Northwesterner's, and the Southwesterner's, and those<br> of the interior, and all their brood,<br> These shall be masters of the world under a new power,<br> They shall laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the<br> world.    30</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The most dauntless and rude shall touch face to face lightly,<br> The dependence of Liberty shall be lovers,<br> The continuance of Equality shall be comrades.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> These shall tie and band stronger than hoops of iron,<br> I, extatic, O partners! O lands! henceforth with the love of lovers<br> tie you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walt+Whitman">Walt Whitman</a><div class=q>
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 Were you looking to be held together by the lawyers?
 By an agreement on a paper? Or by arms?

 Away!
 I arrive, bringing these, beyond all the forces of courts and arms,
 These! to hold you together as firmly as the earth itself is held
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