What is the poem 'Patriotism' by Sir Walter Scott about?

BREATHES there the man with soul so dead,. Who never to himself hath said,. 'This is my own, my native land!' Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd. As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, 5. From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go, mark him well;. For him no Minstrel raptures swell;. read more

In this line poet is describing what kind of person is emotionally dead. To him a person with dead soul is the one who has never told himself that his motherland is his own, native land. Hath simply means have. read more