Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
Author
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1885
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HEREDITY.
A SOLDIER of the Cromwell stamp, With sword and psalm-book by his side, At home alike in church and camp: Austere he lived, and smileless died.
But she, a creature soft and fine— From Spain, some say, some say from France: Within her veins leapt blood like wine— She led her Roundhead lord a dance!
In Grantham church they lie asleep; Just where, the verger may not know. Strange that two hundred years should keep The old ancestral fires aglow!
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In me these two have met again; To each my nature owes a part: To one, the cool and reasoning brain; To one, the quick, unreasoning heart.
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