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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 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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