...from the standpoint of the whole people, as stated by Walt Whitman, the poet prophet of democracy. Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will...splendid race the sun ever shone upon, I will make the divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades, I will plant...

...democracia, esa democracia natural y espontánea de pueblo americano, a la cual dedica gran parte de su obra: «Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I...upon, I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love ofcomrades, Wiíh the life-long love ofcomrades. I will plañí companionship thick as trees along...

...stronger than hoops of iron, I, extatic, O partners! O lands! henceforth with the love of lovers tie you. I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race the sun ever yet shone upon, I will make divine magnetic lands. (LG 1860, p. 351) In this and other poems of the...

...polymorphous relationships, in visions of which he himself often plays the part of a wandering Messiah: Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will...of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. The basis of this comradeship, both Whitman's and Christ's, is that the human being, made in God's...

...Gita becomes transformed into a call for comradeship and "brotherhood of lovers" in Leaves of Grass: Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will...With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades.42 The title of Towards Democracy derives from Whitman's Democratic Vistas (1871), and Carpenter's...

...Whitman's ode "For You O Democracy," which taps both masculine and feminine evocations of country: Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid race that sun every shore upon, I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long...

...let's make the world indissoluble, Let's make the most splendid race The sun has ever shone upon. Let's make divine, magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. TWO-WAYS TIMES TWO: AN AFTERWORD Roy P. Wahle Having read only an early and very different draft of...

...objects to men being friends. He would speak of a new kind of consciousness, a bonding between men. I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone...With the life-long love of comrades. . . . I will make inseparable cities with their arms about each other's necks, By the love of comrades, By the manly...

...THE UNITED STATES Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid land the sun ever shone upon, I will make divine magnetic...of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. —WALT WHITMAN, "For you o democracy" Whitman's essentially pacific democratic vision of "inseparable...

...social pressure, equal almost to the power of compulsion of law."31 AMERICA BECOMES THE UNITED STATES Come, I will make the continent indissoluble, I will make the most splendid land the sun ever shone upon, I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the...