I know not how nor whence I came —
I stand as one without a name —
Yet free and fearless I proclaim:
I am!
I know not to what bourne I go
Of Heaven's bliss — or Hell's dire woe —
But this one thing of all I know:
I am!
Nor Heaven nor Hell can utterly
Disperse the root and core of me —
I will be what I will to be:
I am!1/2/08: