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At Jacob’s well a stranger sought His drooping frame to cheer: Samaria’s daughters little thought That Jacob’s God was near.
This had she known, her fainting mind For richer draughts had sighed; Nor had Messiah, ever kind, Those richer draughts denied.
This ancient well—(no glass so true,)— Britannia’s image shows: Now Jesus travels Britain through, But who the Stranger knows?
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Yet Britain must this Stranger know, Or soon her loss deplore: Behold the living waters flow; Come, drink, and thirst no more.