California – Carol Singley http://singley.lookingforwhitman.org Another Looking for Whitman weblog Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:47:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.30 Whitman and California http://singley.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/07/04/whitman-and-california/ http://singley.lookingforwhitman.org/2009/07/04/whitman-and-california/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 05:47:24 +0000 http://singley.lookingforwhitman.org/?p=34 Inspired by Pacific coastal scenes on a trip West, I post Whitman’s homage to California:

Leaves of Grass
(1881-82)
A PROMISE TO CALIFORNIA.

A PROMISE to California,
Or inland to the great pastoral Plains, and on to Puget sound and
Oregon;
Sojourning east a while longer, soon I travel toward you, to remain,
to teach robust American love,

For I know very well that I and robust love belong among you,
inland, and along the Western sea;

For these States tend inland and toward the Western sea, and I
will also.

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