| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
| |
| 687. Heredity |
| | | By Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| |
| |
| 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— | 5 |
| 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. | 10 |
| Strange that two hundred years should keep | |
| The old ancestral fires aglow! | |
| |
| In me these two have met again; | |
| To each my nature owes a part: | |
| To one, the cool and reasoning brain; | 15 |
| To one, the quick, unreasoning heart. | |
| |
|
|
|
