It's What All Of My Ancestors Did

It's what all of my ancestors did but I won't
My fingers trace the path to their world down the ages
Through the war and the industrial world of machinery
Through the oxen farms and lands of gentry
Through the protestations and plague, knights of Jerusalem
The printing press and the remote khanate
Through the winters of huns and Rome
The frozen tundra and nomad life
The ancient empires: Egypt, Greece, Thrace, Abyssinia,
The basket of Africa, and the times of fruits and Eden
It's what all of my ancestors did
It's what all of my ancestors did
It's what all of my ancestors did
but I won't.

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