Dedication
To MY FRIEND HECTOR MUNRO FERGUSON AND TO MANY OTHER FRIENDS WHO HAVE MADE LIFE RICH
Equidem, ex omnibus rebus, quas mihi aut Fortuna aut Natura tribuit, nihil habeo quod cum amicitia Scipionis possum, comparare.
Cicero
Intreat me not to leave thee,
And to return from following after thee:
For whither thou guest, I will go;
And where thou lodgest, I will lodge;
Thy people shall be my people,
And thy God my God:
Where thou diest, will I die,
And there will I be buried:
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If aught but death part thee and me.
BOOK OF RUTH.