[N.B., the chiiling tag in the excerpt below has been exhoing in my head all morning, so… ]
Answering Sir Walter Scott’s question, posed below: Yes. *sigh* See/hear it every day from politicians *spit*, Mass Media Podpeople and many, many others…
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (excerpt)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)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 burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned
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
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, unhonored , and unsung.
May the day hasten when all such
…shall go down
To the vile dust from whence [they] sprung,
Unwept, unhonored , and unsung.
Amen.
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