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Nathan Hale, American Martyr
America's hero spy was born 250 years ago today.
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em>Welcome, my son! here lay him down, my friends,
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Full in my sight, that I may view at leisure
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The bloody corpse, and count those glorious wounds.
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— How beautiful is death, when earn’d by virtue!
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Who would not be that youth? what pity is it
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That we can die but once to serve our country!
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— Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends?
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I should have blushed if Cato’s house had stood
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Secure, and flourished in a civil war.
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— Portius, behold thy brother, and remember
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Thy life is not thy own, when Rome demands it.
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— Cato, upon receiving the corpse of his son, Marcus, in Joseph
Addison’s 1713 play,
Cato.
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Andrew Cline is editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader. His Twitter ID is @Drewhampshire.
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