Man is free at the moment he wishes to be

I tell you I must go!

Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you?

Do you think I am an automaton?

-a machine without feelings?

And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips,

and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?

You think wrong!