A Promise to California

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A promise to California,
Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Pudget
sound and Oregon;
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel to 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.

Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass