The Walt Whitman Archive
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To a President.
ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled
mirages;
mirages;
You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Na-
ture, you have not learn'd the great amplitude,
rectitude, impartiality;
ture, you have not learn'd the great amplitude,
rectitude, impartiality;
You have not seen that only such as they are for These
States,
States,
And that what is less than they, must sooner or later
lift off from These States.
lift off from These States.