Love
To the East and to the West
From Leaves of Grass
Love
To the East and to the West,
To the man of the Seaside State and of Pennsylvania,
To the Kanadian of the north, to the Southerner I love,
These with perfect trust to depict you as myself, the germs are in all men,
I believe the main purport of these States is to found a superb
friendship, exalte, previously unknown,
Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in all men.
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MLA
Whitman, Walt. “To the East and to the West.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/73/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “To the East and to the West.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/73/.
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