<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529156" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Heredity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A soldier of the Cromwell stamp, <br>With sword and psalm-book by his side, <br>At home alike in church and camp: <br>Austere he lived, and smileless died. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But she, a creature soft and fine- <br>From Spain, some say, some say from France; <br>Within her veins leapt blood like wine- <br>She led her Roundhead lord a dance! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Grantham church they lie asleep; <br>Just where, the verger may not know. <br>Strange that two hundred years should keep <br>The old ancestral fires aglow! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In me these two have met again; <br>To each my nature owes a part: <br>To one, the cool and reasoning brain; <br>To one, the quick, unreasoning heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Bailey+Aldrich">Thomas Bailey Aldrich</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529156" data-title="Heredity de Thomas Bailey Aldrich" data-description="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 ..."></div> </div> </div>

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