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RUTH AND NAOMI, by                    
First Line: A rabbi's child and puritan's once met
Last Line: And reap in joy the harvest—truth sublime.
Subject(s): Death; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Judaism


A RABBI'S child and Puritan's once met;
And, like those fabled mates, with each a wing,
That only soar when they together cling,
These comrades happy joined in mutual debt
For rich ancestral stores most alien. Yet
As greatest pleasures know no lasting spring—
Death came; but sunny Mem'ry comforting,
In tears with brightest rays her rainbow set.
Might Naomi not often glean with Ruth,
And thus give time a double joy and worth?
It takes the each and all from every clime
To cull auspiciously the seeds of truth;
To win anew a Paradise for earth
And reap in joy the harvest—truth sublime.





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