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tell him of what family; he had worked up from the ranks. 'Good for him!' cried Nolan; 'I am glad of that.' Ingham, I told him everything I could think of that would show the grandeur of his country and its 5 prosperity.

"And he drank it in, and enjoyed it as I cannot tell you. He grew more and more silent, yet I never thought he was tired or faint. I gave him a glass of water, but he just wet his lips, and told me not to go 10 away. Then he asked me to bring the Presbyterian 'Book of Public Prayer,' which lay there, and said, with a smile, that it would open at the right place, and so it did. There was his double red mark down the page; and I knelt down and read, and he repeated 15 with me, 'For ourselves and our country, O gracious God, we thank Thee, that notwithstanding our manifold transgressions of Thy holy laws, Thou hast continued to us Thy marvelous kindness,' - and so to the end of that thanksgiving. Then he turned to the end of the 20 same book, and I read the words more familiar to me: 'Most heartily we beseech Thee with Thy favor to behold and bless Thy servant, the President of the United States, and all others in authority.' 'Danforth,' said he, 'I have repeated those prayers night 25 and morning, it is now fifty-five years.' And then he said he would go to sleep. He bent me down over him and kissed me; and he said, 'Look in my Bible, Danforth, when I am gone.' And I went away.

"But I had no thought it was the end. I thought he

was tired and would sleep. I knew he was happy, and I wanted him to be alone.

"But in an hour, when the doctor went in gently, he found Nolan had breathed his life away with a smile. He had something pressed close to his lips. It was 5 his father's badge of the Order of Cincinnati.

"We looked in his Bible, and there was a slip of paper at the place where he had marked the text:

"They desire a country, even a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for He hath 10 prepared for them a city.'

"On this slip of paper he had written:

'Bury me in the sea; it has been my home, and I love it. But will not some one set up a stone for my memory at Fort Adams or at Orleans, that my disgrace 15 may not be more than I ought to bear? Say on it :

In Memory of

PHILIP NOLAN,

Lieutenant of the Army of the United States.
He loved his country as no other man has
loved her; but no man deserved less at
her hands.

QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

1. Tell what you know of the

author of this story.

about it in your United States history.

2. Tell what you know of 3. Tell how Philip Nolan be

Aaron Burr and his

"Conspiracy." Read

came involved in the

"Conspiracy."

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Without a Country"?
Tell the story of his
trial.

5. On what date, until the 15. day of his death, did he

last hear the name, "The
United States"?

6. What punishment was given 16. him for his remark at the trial?

7. How did he look upon the punishment at first?

8. At what time did his punishment first appear to him to be serious?

9. Read aloud his official sentence of punishment.

10. How was he treated by the officers of the ships?

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11. Tell the story of his reading, "Breathes there the man with soul so dead." Give the last lines which 19. Nolan did not read.

12. Why do you think these lines affected him SO deeply?

13. Tell how a lady brought 20.

home to him the terrible

fact that he was a "Man 21. Without a Country."

14. Why did his brave part in the naval battle make

him happy for a time? Why did it make him appreciate the awfulness of his punishment? Why did the hunger of the

poor slaves for their homes and children hurt him so exceedingly? Read aloud Danforth's letter.

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How had poor Nolan, in his deadly hours of ignorance as a Man Without a Country," tried to construct for himself the growth of his lost country?

How long was Nolan a

"Man Without a Country"? How did he come to know at last the granIdeur of the land he had cast away? What is the Order of Cin

cinnati? Why did his badge of this order make his youthful act so disgraceful?

What had he written to be

put on his gravestone? What has this story made

you think about yourself and your love for your country?

LOVE OF COUNTRY

SIR WALTER SCOTT

In reading this fine short poem, which is taken from the sixth canto of Sir Walter Scott's long poem, "The Lay (song) of the Last Minstrel," try to see: a great hall in Newark Castle in Scotland, hundreds of years ago; weapons and tapestries, or pictures woven in cloth, hanging from the walls; many lords and warriors and beautiful ladies listening to an old Scottish harper.

He has been singing to them songs of love and heroic fighting. His listeners applaud his singing and his playing. A harper was a poet as well as a musician. He made up most of his songs as he sang them.

Now at that time the people of Scotland were brave but very poor, while the people of England were very rich. The lords and ladies saw that the harper was old and poor, but that his singing and playing were very wonderful. They knew that if he should go to England and play and sing for the rich lords and ladies there, he would soon become rich from their gifts. So they ask him why he does not go to England.

Now picture the old harper, as he answers them with this song. His hair is long and very white. He picks a few chords on his harp, then, looking far away and composing his song and music as he sings and plays, he begins to sing,

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"Breathes there the man with soul so dead,

Who never to himself hath said,

This is my own, my native land!"

Read on silently the rest of his song, trying hard to imagine the scene, the listening lords and ladies, the old harper's voice and

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playing, and at the same time try to think what he is telling them

in the song.

Then, after you have done so and have heard his song, look around you. Think of your own great and beautiful land. Think of "Old Glory." Then say the song for yourself.

It will be well to learn the meaning of the following words and phrases before trying to read the old harper's song:

have.

doubly dying: give up, not only his life, but also his valued right as a lover of his country.

foreign strand : some other fame he otherwise might land or country than his own. no minstrel raptures swell: no minstrel harper will ever compose or sing a heroic song about any man who does not love his country. pelf: riches; money.

forfeit fair renown: lose the

concentered: centered on one

thing, thinking and caring only for himself.

As you read the song, try to tell it to your classmates. You can never do this well until you fully understand it. One reads well aloud first, because he fully understands what he is reading, and secondly, because he really tries to tell it to others in the words of the story or poem.

LOVE OF COUNTRY

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;

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