<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115246" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a picture of Ruth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fresh, through the mist of ages past,<br> Thou risest on our view,<br> As when from Judah's waving fields,<br> Thy footsteps brushed the dew.<br> <br> Yet 'tis not for thy beauty's sake<br> We thus remember thee;<br> Although a chieftain's captive heart<br> Attests its potency; --<br> <br> Not for the quiet interest<br> Thy simple story brings;<br> And not that from thy side there sprung<br> A line of prophet-kings.<br> <br> But for that changeless, deathless love,<br> The true soul only knows,<br> That still, as darker lowers the night,<br> Serener, brighter glows.<br> <br> That love that led thee forth to seek<br> The stranger's chill abode, --<br> Upon whose altar thou couldst lay<br> Thy home, thy land, thy God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115246" data-title="On a picture of Ruth de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="Fresh, through the mist of ages past,/ Thou risest on our view,/ As when from Judah's waving fields,/ Thy footsteps brushed the dew./ / Yet 'tis not for thy beauty's sake/ We thus remember thee;/ Although a chieftain's captive heart/ Attests i..."></div> </div> </div>

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