RUBY PSALM

RUBY PSALM (for VIRTUE 1; Proverbs 31:10-31)

Virtue is dearer than rubies –
Give her the fruit of her hands –
Beauty is vain – let works praise her –
Safe is the heart of her man.

She will do good and not evil –
All of the days of her life –
She looketh well to her household –
She is an excellent wife.

She seeketh wool and the spindle –
She bringeth food from afar –
She maketh linen and purple –
Stretches her hand to the poor.

She riseth while it is yet night –
Her candle never goes out –
Kindness is her native language –
Wisdom the law of mouth.

Virtue adorns many daughters –
She shall rejoice in her field –
Covered with honor and blessings –
Her vineyard’s bounteous yield.

(11 January 2010)