<p class="poetry">Can the papyrus plant grow tall<n id="1" /> where there is no marsh?p> <p class="poetry">Can reeds flourish<n id="2" /> without water?p>

<p class="poetry">The dry soil will become a pool of water,p> <p class="poetry">the parched ground springs of water.p> <p class="poetry">Where jackals once lived and sprawled out,p> <p class="poetry">grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.p>

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket<n id="1" /> for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">that sends messengers by sea,p> <p class="poetry">who glide over the water&#8217;s surface in boats made of papyrus.p> <p class="poetry">Go, you swift messengers,p> <p class="poetry">to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to a people that are feared far and wide,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to a nation strong and victorious,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">whose land rivers divide.<n id="4" />p>