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With All Thy Gifts.

Part of the cluster AUTUMN RIVULETS.

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?

Part of the cluster AUTUMN RIVULETS.

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