"As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, 
In "An American Anthology, 17871900", Edmund Clarence Stedman reprints the 1844 Clement C. Moore version of the poem, including the German spelling of "Donder and Blitzen," rather than the original 1823 version using the Dutch spelling, "Dunder and Blixem".Both phrases translate as "Thunder and Lightning" in English, though German for "thunder" is now spelled "Donner", and the Dutch words would now be spelled "Donder" and "Bliksem".