If you could see your ancestors

~ by
Nellie Winslow Simmons Randall

If you could see your ancestors,
All standing in a row,
Would you be proud of them,
Or don't you really know?

 
Some strange discoveries are made
In climbing family trees;
And some of them, you know,
Do not particularly please.

If you could see your ancestors,
All standing in a row,
There might be some of them, perhaps,
You wouldn't care to know.

 
But there's another question
Which requires a different view ...
If you could "meet" your ancestors,
Would they be proud of you?