A Promise To California

Walt Whitman

   A PROMISE to California,
   Also to the great Pastoral Plains, and for 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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