Lyrics of Life (1909)/Affinity

by Florence Earle Coates

For other versions of this work, see Affinity (Coates).

AFFINITY

All are not strangers whom we so misname:
Man's free-born spirit, which no rule can tame,
Careless of time, o'er vasty distance led,
Still finds its own where alien altars flame,
Still greets its own, amongst the deathless dead!