FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE POETRY FILE "With All They Gifts"(1876). A.MS.S.draft. Box 30 Folder 32 184 1876 With All Thy Gifts America: poem. A.MS.s. (1p. 21 x 13 cm.) Written in ink, with all of the corrections (except in title) in pencil and signature with a blue pencil cancellation (on verso in pencil: With all thy gifts America), on a page which seems torn from a notebook, first draft of the poem, "With all thy gifts America," Two Rivulets, 1876, 90 words: [While] With all the gifts America. [While] With all the gifts, America, (Standing secure, rapidly tending overlooking the world, [rapidly] tending,) Power, wealth, extent, [thou hast] vouchsafed—[while] to thee—with these, and like of these [thou hast] vouchsafed to thee, What if one gift thou lack'st (the [final] ultimate human problem never solving;) The gift of perfect women fit for thee? What if that gift of gifts thou lackst? (over) 184A The perfect feminine of thee? The beauty, health, completion, fit for thee? The mothers fit for thee? [Walt Whitman.] [While] With all the gifts America: [While] With all the gifts, America, (Standing secure, rapidly tending overlooking the world, [rapidly tending],) Power, wealth, extent, [thou hast] vouchsafed—[while] to thee—with[?] these, and like of these [thou hast] vouchsafed[,] to thee, What if one gift thou lack'st? (the [final] ultimate human problem never solving;) The gift of perfect women fit for thee? What if that gift of gifts thou lackst? The perfect feminine of thee? The beauty, health, completion, fit for thee? The mothers fit for thee? [Walt Whitman.] With all thy gifts America Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.