TO A PRESIDENT

ALL you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
You have not learn'd of Nature--of the politics of Nature, you have
not learn'd 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. 

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860, p 229

The last two lines escape me, but the rest seems clear. "Sustainable Plans" are like dangled mirages (to mix my references) full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. They (the plans, and those who find them satisfying) " have not learn'd of Nature--of the politics of Nature, (they) have not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,"

 

They must improve it with sculptures and buildings. They must own and profit from it.

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