And from thence they went to Beer:that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, ' Gather the people together, and I will give them water.' Then Israel sang this song:' Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it. The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves.' " (Num. 21:16, 18.)

Spring up ! spring up, O well!
Hard-digged (divinely given),
With staff in hand, out the dry sand,
By journeyings on to Canaan's land ;
Foretaste of heaven,
Spring up ! spring up, O well !

Amid those distant hills
The water-brooks run clown ;
River and rill the valleys fill,
And the glad land the Lord doth till,
With plenty crown.
Spring up ! spring up, O well !

Savior from thraldom past,
God of the promised land,
Thy desert love, here, here, we prove !
Boasting in Thee, we'd onward move,
Till there we stand.
Spring up ! spring up, O well !