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What love can be
purer and greater
than love of country?
What love? No other love, none.
Even when the mind repeatedly reads
and try to understand
the history that is written and printed
by humanity, this (love of country) can be seen.
Holy love! when born
of a pure heart,
the humble and the backwoodsman, the poor, the unlettered
become great and respected.
Love of country
is always the desire of a man with honor;
In songs, in poetry, in his writings
the greatness of the country is always the theme.
Nothing dear to a person with a pure heart
is denied to the country that gave him birth:
blood, wealth, knowledge, sacrifices,
E’en if life itself ends.
Why? what is this that is so big
to which is dedicated with utmost devotion,
all that is dear
and to which life is sacrificed.
Ah, this is the Mother country…
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