That thing called "America"

America

Another poem by Walt Whitman that I found dearest. It just portrays America and why we love our country. That besides the fact the we are of popular interest that we have meaning behind our name. We fought for equality within our own regions to prove the point that we are all equal. Equal. Something that seems to come up a lot. He mentions "equal daughters, and sons" and aren't we all daughters and sons? Not only about the equality in our nature but how we are mentally as a whole and physically. America was made out of the Freedom we demanded, the love for each other and the law that binds us together.

Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,

All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,

Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,

Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,

A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,

Chair’d in the adamant of Time.