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Heredity

Language: English

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.


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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Date added to the website: 2006-10-11.

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