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To a President

Part of the cluster MESSENGER LEAVES.

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 ampli- 
 tude, 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.

Part of the cluster MESSENGER LEAVES.

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