Sin-bound, both heart and hand.

With prejudicial pride

She scorned the meek request

Of One who sat the well beside,

With heat and thirst opprest.

"Thou art a Jew," she said,

"And asketh drink of me?

Samaria's daughter was not bred

To deal with such as thee."

She would not yield a sip

E'en if its maker sued,

While he from love, with thirsting lip,

Sought and her heart renewed.

He made her ask for life,

Eternal life through him,

And "living water" was the type

To her perception dim.

O yes! She fain would taste

And never thirst again,

And never cross the burning waste

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