To the East and to the West

To the East and to the West;

To the man of the Seaside State, and of Pennsylvania,

To the Kanadian of the North—to the Southerner I

love;

These, with perfect trust, to depict you as myself—the

germs are in all men;

I believe the main purport of These States is to found

a superb friendship, exalt, previously unknown,

Because I perceive it waits, and has been always wait-

ing, latent in all men.