With All Thy Gifts

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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?

© Walt Whitman