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[Bitwit1234]

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
who to himself has never said.....
this is my own my native land...
whose heart has ner'er within him burned
when home his footsteps he has turned (and then the other quote starts)

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Now this I learned when I was in the fifth grade ....and at the most I was only nine years old...I remembered it...

Isn't it called "Man without a Country. About somebody name Nathan who was a traitor and was not allowed to come back to the United States. I think it was a sort of true story ..and since I am now 75 I can't remember the guys last name. I am going to do a search and satisfy my curiosity.