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# America
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/america/
- Published: 2021-07-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Your children thought they’re equal, equal once Now all that disappeared, your children must be told, Strong, rich and capable, but fair to each? As challenged as the Earth in Freedom, Law and Love, A struggling exper...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Your children thought they’re equal, equal once  
Now all that disappeared, your children must be told,  
Strong, rich and capable, but fair to each?  
As challenged as the Earth in Freedom, Law and Love,  
A struggling experiment, helpless Mother,  
Please! Please withstand the test of Time.

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**Author notes:** The original America poem by Walt Whitman: Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair’d in the adamant of Time. https://allpoetry.com/contest/2779805-Win--50-Walt-Whitman---write-a-poem-in-his-