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From: "Madeleine English" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] May
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:19:27 -0700
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Hello -- Tried researching it on line with just the first line. Found it,
but sadly,
it states, "author unknown" in every on line version I was able to locate.
Guess
it's just one of those great verses "someone" wrote that the rest of the
world
felt was too good to allow it to get lost.

Madeleine
Sacramento, California

On 5/16/07, hm dyck <> wrote:
>
> Dose any one know who wrote this poem...
> ANCESTRY
> WHEN SPEAKING OF OUR ANCESTRY,
> MY MOTHER'S EYES WOULD SHINE,
> AND PROUDLY SHE WOULD TELL US ALL,
> YOUR OF THE TUDOR LINE.
> BUT FATHER WITH A SMILE WOULD SAY,
> "WHILE BEARING THAT IN MIND,
> YOU KEEP YOUR EYES ON GOALS AHEAD;
> NOT THOSE THAT LIE BEHIND."
> YOU HAVE A NOBLE ANCESTRY,
> BUT ALL ARE DEAD AND GONE,
> 'TIS YOU WHO HAVE TO PROVE YOR WORTH,
> NOT THOSE WHO'VE JOURNEYED ON.
> AND BACK ALONG THAT TOUDOR LINE.
> 'TIS SORRY TRUTH I STATE.
> THERE MAYBE SOME YOU CAN'T APPROVE.
> AND EVEN SOME YOU HATE,
> THE WAY TO PRONE YOUR ANCESTRY,
> IS WHAT YOU ARE YOURSELF;
> NOT BY THE CHARTED FAMILY TREE,
> IN THE BOOK UPON THE SHELF.
> SO TRY TO BE AN ANCESTOR,
> WITHIN THE TIME ALLOWED,
> OF WHOM YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN,
> IN THE FUTURE CAN BE PROUD.
>
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