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6. One from Massachusetts shall be comrade to a Missourian,

One from Maine or Vermont, and a Carolinian and an Oregonese, shall be friends triune, more precious to each other than all the riches of the earth.

7. To Michigan shall be wafted perfume from Florida,

To the Mannahatta from Cuba or Mexico,

Not the perfume of flowers, but sweeter, and wafted beyond death.

8. No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers,

If need be, a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.

The Kanuck shall be willing to lay down his life for the Kansian, and the Kansian for the Kanuck, on due need.

9. It shall be customary in all directions, in the houses and streets, to see manly affection.

The departing brother or friend shall salute the remaining brother or friend with a kiss.

10. There shall be innovations,

There shall be countless linked hands — namely, the Northeasterner's, and the Northwesterner's, and the Southwesterner's, and those of the interior, and all their brood.

These shall be masters of the world under a new power.

They shall laugh to scorn the attacks of all the remainder of the world.

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