<p class="poetry">The leading men of the cities send their servants for water.p> <p class="poetry">They go to the cisterns,<n id="1" /> but they do not find any water there.p> <p class="poetry">They return with their containers<n id="2" /> empty.p> <p class="poetry">Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.<n id="3" />p>