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Robert Browning - Why I Am a Liberal
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"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."
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