"WHY?" Because all I haply can and do, All that I am now, all I hope to be, -- Whence comes it save from fortune setting free Body and soul the purpose to pursue, God traced for both? If fetters, not a few, Of prejudice, convention, fall from me, These shall I bid men -- each in his degree Also God-guided -- bear, and gayly, too? But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty. Who, then, dares hold, emancipated thus, His fellow shall continue bound? Not I, Who live, love, labor freely, nor discuss A brother's right to freedom. That i "Why." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARIZONA POEMS: 6. RAIN IN THE DESERT by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER YELLOW WARBLERS by KATHARINE LEE BATES A WINTER TWILIGHT by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE THE HEART FLED AGAIN by ABRAHAM COWLEY |