Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FAMOUS MAN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER


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FAMOUS MAN, by                    
First Line: Fluttered across his face
Last Line: Of his father.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Parents; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives; Parenthood


Fluttered across his face
From the dark vaults of heredity
The family smile,
The very markings
Of those whose lives had been spent,
Listening at the blank doors
Of human conduct.

And for him,
In whose mind clod-breaking effort
Toiled ever at new earth,
In whose reality lay the hidden seed
Of the unproven,
Even for him, to house this activity,
That had not been before,
Nor should be again,
There was no new contour—
Only the smile of his mother,
The listening fatuous posture
Of his father.





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