Walt Whitman - The Prairie States

A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude, <br /> Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms, <br /> With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one, <br /> By all the world contributed--freedom's and law's and thrift's <br /> society, <br /> The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's accumulations, <br /> To justify the past.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-prairie-states/