<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="c-feature-sub_vast c-feature-sub" style="font-size: 18.66666603088379px;"><span class="c-txt c-txt_attribution">To the States</span></div><div class="c-feature-sub_vast c-feature-sub" style="font-size: 18.66666603088379px;"> </div><div class="c-feature-sub_vast c-feature-sub" style="font-size: 18.66666603088379px;">To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad.</div><div class="c-feature-bd" style="font-size: 18.66666603088379px;"><div class="isActive o-poem" data-view="PoemView"><div class="o-vr_6x o-vr"><div class="c-epigraph"><p class="">Why reclining, interrogating? why myself and all drowsing? <br class="">Why deepening twilight-scum floating atop of the waters,<br class="">Who are they as bats and night-dogs askant in the capitol? <br class="">What a filthy Presidentiad! (O South, your torrid suns! O North, your arctic freezings!) <br class="">Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President? <br class="">Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep, for reasons; <br class="">(With gathering murk, with muttering thunder and lambent shoots we all duly awake, <br class="">South, North, East, West, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> - Walt Whitman</div><div class="c-feature-sub_vast c-feature-sub"><span class="c-txt c-txt_attribution"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Leaves of Grass)</span></div><div class="c-feature-bd"><div class="isActive o-poem" data-view="PoemView"><div class="o-vr_6x o-vr"><div class="c-epigraph"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>