Can the rush grow up without mire?\par\tab Can the flag grow without water?
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee,\par\tab And utter words out of their heart?\par
Whilst it is yet in its greenness, {\i and} not cut down,\par\tab It withereth before any {\i other} herb.