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Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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TO A PRESIDENT.
ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages, |
You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Nature you
have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
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You have not seen that only such as they are for these States, |
And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from
these States.
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