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Walt Whitman · Leaves of Grass

Poem 12 of 382 · Inscriptions

To the States

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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.

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