The Walt Whitman Archive
Published Works
Books by Whitman
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Walt Whitman's Caution.
TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of
The States, Resist much, obey little,
The States, Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this
earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.