Long, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish,
    advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?) 

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Text Authorship:

• by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Long, too long America", appears in Drum Taps [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by William Howard Schuman (1910 - 1992), "Long, too long America", published 1943 [mixed chorus and 2 pianos or orchestra], from the cantata A Free Song, no. 1, cantata.
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