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. |