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From: "Jan Patton" <>
Subject: Dear Ancestor
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:09:03 -0400

This was on my FitzRandolph geneology site. I thought it was so beautiful that I wanted to pass it along


DEAR ANCESTOR
(Dedicated to those who have gone before us)

Your tombstone stands among the rest
Neglected and alone

The name and date are chiseled out
On polished marble stone

It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn

You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born

Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh and blood and bone

Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own

Dear Ancestor...the place you filled
One hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so

I wonder if you lived and loved
I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot
And come to visit you.

Author Unknown

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