Dost shoot thy double head on high,}

Mount Horeb, and Mount Sinai;}

And when the weary traveller stands,

Alone amid the sterile sands,

Seeking for water, vain pursuit,

To quench his thirst, grown absolute,

Groaning, as fainter grows his hope,

For water!—water!—but a drop,

His ever burning thirst t' appease;

He through the sudden moonlight sees