With All Thy Gifts

Walt Whitman

   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 of that gift of gifts
         thou lackest?
   The towering Feminine of thee? the beauty, health, completion, fit
         for thee?
   The Mothers fit for thee?

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