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To a President

TO A PRESIDENT.

ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled  
 mirages;
You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of  
 Nature, you have not learn'd 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.
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