I have ventured to borrow this expression from the tragedy of Count Julian. Nothing can be finer than the passage in which it occurs.
Abdalazis. Thou lovest still thy country?
Julian. Abdalazis,
All men with human feelings love their country.
Not the high-born or wealthy man alone,
Who looks upon his children, each one led
By its gay hand-maid, from the high alcove,
And hears them once a-day; not only he
Who hath forgotten, when his guest inquires
The name of some far village all his own;