TO the East and to the West; <br /> To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania, <br /> To the Kanadian of the North--to the Southerner I love; <br /> These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself--the germs are in <br /> all men; <br /> I believe the main purport of These States is to found a superb <br /> friendship, exalté, previously unknown, <br /> Because I perceive it waits, and has been always waiting, latent in <br /> all men.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-east-and-to-the-west/
