Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS


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First Line: The plume-like swaying of the auburn corn
Last Line: "thy people and thy god shall be mine own!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Judaism


THE plume-like swaying of the auburn corn,
By soft winds to a dreamy motion fanned,
Still brings me back thine image -- O forlorn,
Yet not forsaken Ruth! I see thee stand
Lone, 'midst the gladness of the harvest band --
Lone, as a wood-bird on the ocean's foam
Fall'n in its weariness. Thy fatherland
Smiles far away! yet to the sense of home --
That finest, purest, which can recognise
Home in affection's glance -- for ever true
Beats thy calm heart; and if thy gentle eyes
Gleam tremulous through tears, 'tis not to rue
Those words, immortal in their deep love's tone,
"Thy people and thy God shall be mine own!"





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