Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Sir Walter Scott. 17711832547. Patriotism 1. Innominatus
BREATHES there the man with soul so dead, | |
Who never to himself hath said, | |
‘This is my own, my native land!’ | |
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d | |
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d | 5 |
From wandering on a foreign strand? | |
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; | 10 |
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, | 15 |
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung. |