America
by Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
Centre
of equal daughters, equal sons,
All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown,
young or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
Chair'd in the adamant of Time.
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