(For who except myself has yet conceived what your children en masse really are?)’”
“I see,” said Hamilton thoughtfully, “you want to show what America is en masse.”
“Yes, that’s it.”
He laid down the cards and ran his long, tapering fingers through his hair. Then he closed his eyes and began:
“‘Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
I will make the most splendid race the sun ever shone upon;
I will make divine magnetic lands,
With the love of comrades,
With the life-long love of comrades.
I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers of America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies;