Heredity

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Title:     Heredity
Author: Thomas Hardy [More Titles by Hardy]

I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.

The years-heired feature that can
In curve and voice and eye
Despise the human span
Of durance--that is I;
The eternal thing in man,
That heeds no call to die.

[The end]
Thomas Hardy's poem: Heredity

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