by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Long, Too Long, O Land
Language: English
Long, too long, O land, Traveling roads all even and peaceful, you learn'd from joys and prosperity only; But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish—ad- vancing, 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?)
Confirmed with Walt Whitman, Drum-Taps, 1871
Text Authorship:
- by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Long, Too Long, O Land", appears in Drum Taps, first published 1871 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Nancy Hayes Van de Vate (1930 - 2023), "Long, Too Long, O Land", 1994, first performed 1994 [ satb chorus and orchestra ], from An American Essay, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2025-11-19
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