Long, Too Long, O Land.

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.

LONG, TOO LONG, O LAND.

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?)

Part of the cluster DRUM-TAPS.