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Walt Whitman's Caution.

Part of the cluster SONGS OF INSURRECTION.

Walt Whitman's Caution.

TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of 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.

Part of the cluster SONGS OF INSURRECTION.

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