Interlink’d, food-yielding lands! 
Land of coal and iron! land of gold! land of cotton, sugar, rice! 
Land of wheat, beef, pork! land of wool and hemp! land of the apple
    and the grape! 
Land of the pastoral plains, the grass-fields of the world! land of
    those sweet-air’d interminable plateaus! 
Land of the herd, the garden, the healthy house of adobie! 
Lands where the north-west Columbia winds, and where the south-west
    Colorado winds! 
Land of the eastern Chesapeake! land of the Delaware! 
Land of Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan! 
Land of the Old Thirteen!  Massachusetts land! land of Vermont and
    Connecticut! 
Land of the ocean shores! land of sierras and peaks! 
Land of boatmen and sailors! fishermen’s land! 
Inextricable lands! the clutch’d together! the passionate ones! 
The side by side! the elder and younger brothers! the bony-limb’d! 
The great women’s land! the feminine! the experienced sisters and
    the inexperienced sisters! 
Far breath’d land!  Arctic braced!  Mexican breez’d! the diverse! the
    compact! 
The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian! 
O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations!  O I at any
    rate include you all with perfect love! 
I cannot be discharged from you! not from one any sooner than another! 
O death!  O for all that, I am yet of you unseen this hour with
    irrepressible love,
Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
Splashing my bare feet in the edge of the summer ripples on
    Paumanok’s sands,
Crossing the prairies, dwelling again in Chicago, dwelling in every town,
Observing shows, births, improvements, structures, arts,
Listening to orators and oratresses in public halls,
Of and through the States as during life, each man and woman my neighbor,
The Louisianian, the Georgian, as near to me, and I as near to him and her,
The Mississippian and Arkansian yet with me, and I yet with any of them,
Yet upon the plains west of the spinal river, yet in my house of adobie,
Yet returning eastward, yet in the Seaside State or in Maryland,
Yet Kanadian cheerily braving the winter, the snow and ice welcome to me,
Yet a true son either of Maine or of the Granite State, or the
    Narragansett Bay State, or the Empire State,
Yet sailing to other shores to annex the same, yet welcoming every
    new brother,
Hereby applying these leaves to the new ones from the hour they
    unite with the old ones,
Coming among the new ones myself to be their companion and equal,
    coming personally to you now,
Enjoining you to acts, characters, spectacles, with me.

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With me with firm holding, yet haste, haste on. 
For your life adhere to me,
(I may have to be persuaded many times before I consent to give
    myself really to you, but what of that? 
Must not Nature be persuaded many times?)