For he had been a son and brother in that home

Since first with manly courtesy he had filled

The empty pails of Reuel’s daughters, and found

A shelter ’neath his tent when flying from

The wrath of Pharaoh.

They journeyed on,

Moses, Zipporah and sons, she looking back

With tender love upon the home she had left,

With all its precious memories crowding round

Her heart, and he with eager eyes tracking