To a President

by Walt Whitman · 1871
Published 01/07/1871

ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages;

You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Na-tureNature, you have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality;

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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