| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Ruth and Naomi | | By Lowell Courier |
| | | 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 | 5 |
| 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? | 10 |
| 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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