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Non omnis moriar

To The States

by Walt Whitman · Explore poems

  1. To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist
  2. much, obey little,
  3. Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
  4. Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever
  5. afterward resumes its liberty.

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