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FURTHER READING
Poems by Sir Walter Scott
Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto VI, ["My Native Land"]
Coronach
Politics and Patriotism
Howl, Parts I & II
by Allen Ginsberg
A Farewell to America
by Phillis Wheatley
America
by Robert Creeley
America
by Walt Whitman
American History
by Michael S. Harper
Bomb Crater Sky
by Lam Thi My Da
Dear George Bush
by Kristin Prevallet
Exquisite Candidate
by Denise Duhamel
Exquisite Politics
by Denise Duhamel
I Hear America Singing
by Walt Whitman
I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
Identity Crisis
by F. D. Reeve
In a Country
by Larry Levis
Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes
On Being Brought from Africa to America
by Phillis Wheatley
Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds
by Eleanor Lerman
Patriotics
by David Baker
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry
by Carl Dennis
The Star-Spangled Banner
by Francis Scott Key
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Patriotism  
by Sir Walter Scott

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 
  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, unhonour'd, and unsung. 
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