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, exalté, previously unknown, 
   Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in 
         all men.
Walt Whitman
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