Deborah’s Tree by Jane Yolen

Author:Jane Yolen [Jane Yolen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KAR-BEN PUBLISHING

Deborah stands by the tree

picking sweet dates.

She takes the full bowl

back to the house to help Mama

make a dessert.

She has already gathered the honey.

There is no more talk of dreams

as her own future unfolds before her.

Now Deborah is a new wife

with a husband named Lapidot,

who makes lanterns and lights.

She has her own date palm—

indeed, a grove of palm trees.

She loves the feel of the tree

at her back as she sits and studies the law.

Now Deborah is a judge in Israel.

Not just a daughter, not just a wife,

but the first woman judge.

Because of how well she knows the law,

because she can sometimes see into the future.

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