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TO RICH GIVERS.

WHAT you give me I cheerfully accept,

A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money, as I rendez-
vous with my poems,

A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through the States,
—why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? why to
advertise for them?

For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman,

For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts
of the universe.

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