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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 amplitude,
 * 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.



you have been asking for something to represent
 * the new race, our self-poised Democracy,

Therefore I send you my poems, that you behold in
 * them what you wanted.



in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads
 * itself grandly as it pours in the great sea.