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WITH ALL THY GIFTS.
| WITH all thy gifts America, |
| Standing secure, rapidly tending, overlooking the world, |
| Power, wealth, extent, vouchsafed to thee—with these and like of these vouchsafed to thee, |
| What if one gift thou lackest? (the ultimate human problem never solving,) |
| The gift of perfect women fit for thee—what if that gift of gifts thou lackest? |
| The towering feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit for thee? |
| The mothers fit for thee? |