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. [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/christ_agony/heredity.html ]
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.
