America always!

Always me joined with you, whoever you are!

Always our own feuillage!

Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of Alabama and Texas!

Always California's golden hills and hollows—and the silver mountains of New Mexico! Always soft-breath'd Cuba!

Always the vast slope drained by the Southern Sea—inseparable with the slopes drained by the Eastern and Western Seas,

The area the Eighty-third year of These States—the three and a half millions of square miles,

The eighteen thousand miles of sea-coast and bay-coast on the main—the thirty thousand miles of river navigation,

The seven millions of distinct families, and the same number of dwellings—Always these and more, branching forth into numberless branches;

Always the free range and diversity! Always the continent of Democracy!

Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities, travellers, Kanada, the snows;

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