Lines from The Lay of Last Minstrel (Summary)

The poem has been composed by a great poet Sir Walter Scott. He is very famous for his ideas about patriostism. 

      In this poem the poet denounces, the person, who has no love for his active land. Unapatriote is one who has no love for his native land so a person who has no love or emotional attachment with his mother land, The poet tells him a dull fellow. He says that when a person cow es back his country from foreign tour, if no loving passion. No. Singer composes songs in his praise. He deserves no sympathy. He may be very rich person, he may hold the highest post, he may be very powerful, but in spite of all his wealth and nobody will respect him to the care of heart. Because he is always absorbed in his own selfish motives and has done nothing for the welfare of his country.

     According to the poet such unpatriot dies double death. The first death is physical when he is buried in the dust. The second death is in the sense that no body remembers him after his death. Nobody composes songs in his praise. Nobody mourns at his death. In other words he is totally forgotten by the people.