I loved that! Angela -----Original Message----- From: Roy Rhodes <royrhodes@door.net> To: ALTALLAP-L@rootsweb.com <ALTALLAP-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 7:47 AM Subject: AL SURNAMES >RHODES PERRY CO.---- LEWALLEN CHEROKEE CO. > >How Green Was My Valley > > From "How Green Was My Valley" by Richard Llewellyn: > >"I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to >come, I looked back >and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front to >see my son, and his >son, and the sons upon sons beyond. > >And their eyes were my eyes. > >As I felt, so they had felt and were to feel, as then, so now, as >tomorrow and forever. Then >I was not afraid, for I was in a long line that had no beginning and no >end, and the hand >of his father grasped my father's hand, and his hand was in mine, and my >unborn son took >my right hand, and all, up and down the line that stretched from Time >That Was to Time >That Is, and Is Not Yet, raised their hands to show the link, and we >found that we were one, >born of Woman, Son of Man, made in the Image, fashioned in the Womb by >the Will of God, >the Eternal Father." >