. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ly unknown, unhonored, and unsung. At this, three, at least, of Uncle Toms auditors sprang at him with ashout, and Bert cried gleefully: Aha, Uncle Tom! Got you there, have nt we? Unwept, notunknown. Is nt that so, boys and girls? We did nt study our WalterScott for nothing. See canto six, Lay of the Last Minstrel, dont youknow ? Give it to him, Jack. Whereupon Jack, nothing loath, gave voice to the whole quotation: Breathes there a man with soul so dead,Who never to himself has said, This is
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ly unknown, unhonored, and unsung. At this, three, at least, of Uncle Toms auditors sprang at him with ashout, and Bert cried gleefully: Aha, Uncle Tom! Got you there, have nt we? Unwept, notunknown. Is nt that so, boys and girls? We did nt study our WalterScott for nothing. See canto six, Lay of the Last Minstrel, dont youknow ? Give it to him, Jack. Whereupon Jack, nothing loath, gave voice to the whole quotation: Breathes there a man with soul so dead,Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land!Whose heart hath neer 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 could claim;Despite those titles, power, and pelf,The wretch, concentred all in self,Living, shall forfeit fair renown,And, doubly dying, shall go downTo the vile dust from whence he sprung,Unwept, unhonored, and LINCOLN AND HIS SON TAD. Lincoln said of this picture: Please explain to folks that Tad and I are looking at a photograph album. They might think we were reading a book. We were nt; and I dont like giving out false impressions. 13* 198 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS There, sir; unwept, not unknown, you see, said Marian. Right you are! cried Uncle Tom, in laughing 11 have to be careful when I drop into quotation before the school-boyor girl of this advanced age; and I m glad to acknowledge it, too, andcry for quarter. And quarter at once was granted with the hug and caress that sweetencriticism. But, somehow, said Christine, musingly, that extract from Scottdoes nt seem to fit Lincolns case—does it, now? He did nt go away andcome home and make fun of his native land; and he certainly did nt godown unwept, unhonored, and unsung. Seems to me that one verse fromhi
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