Leaves of Grass (1860)/To a President

by Walt Whitman

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To a President.

All you are doing and saying is to America dangled
mirages,
You have not learned of Nature—of the politics of
Nature, you have not learned 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.