"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 thro' Liberty.
        Who then dares hold, emancipated thus,
His fellow shall continue bound? not I,
        Who live, love, labour freely, nor discuss
A brother's right to freedom. That is "Why."