doubt that if the same call of duty had come to
him that came in bygone days to his relative,
young Nathan Hale, he would have done exactly
as Nathan Hale did. That call did not come, but
to the end of his days Edward Everett Hale lived
for his country as nobly as Nathan Hale died for it.

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