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Leaves of Grass (1881-82)
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TO THE STATES,
To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad.
| WHY reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing? |
| What deepening twilight—scum floating atop of the waters, |
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| Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol? |
What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North,
your arctic freezings!)
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Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that
the President?
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Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for
reasons;
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(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots
we all duly awake,
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South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely
awake.)
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