Love
A Promise to California
From Leaves of Grass
Love
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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MLA
Whitman, Walt. “A Promise to California.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/65/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “A Promise to California.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/65/.
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