Excerpt from Rays of the Eastern Star Gentle gleaner in the field, Blest reward her toil doth yield Blest her works of heart and hand, Stranger in a stranger land; Precepts deep of faith and truth, Learn we of the gleaner, Ruth. Lessons sweet of gentleness, Come to cheer us, come to bless. From the endless ages past, Fading not while time shall last. Here a little, there a little. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.