Quote of the Day (Thomas Hardy, on the Enduring ‘Family Face’)

“I am the family face;

Flesh perishes, I live on,

Projecting trait and trace

Through time to times anon,

And leaping from place to place

Over oblivion.”—English novelist-poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), “Heredity,” in Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)