Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.
By Thomas BaileyAldrich687 Heredity
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With sword and psalm-book by his side,
At home alike in church and camp:
Austere he lived, and smileless died.
From Spain, some say, some say from France;
Within her veins leapt blood like wine—
She led her Roundhead lord a dance!
Just where, the verger may not know.
Strange that two hundred years should keep
The old ancestral fires aglow!
To each my nature owes a part:
To one, the cool and reasoning brain;
To one, the quick, unreasoning heart.