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Leaves of Grass (1867)
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WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION.
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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