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A SOUL THAT MUST HAVE DIED AT BIRTH [1]
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Date: 2023-12-05
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!*
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
From Sir Walter Scotts The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
1805
I have taken the liberty of omitting lines: 4, 5, 6.
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