"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, labour freely, nor discuss
A brother's right to freedom. That is "Why."
Why I Am A Liberal
Robert Browning
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Poem topics: brother, freedom, hope, prejudice, soul, continue, purpose, hold, live, labour, body, save, bound, fortune, god, love, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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