What news do you bring, with your loose-hanging rein,
Your spurs wet with blood, and your bridle with foam?
"Christ is arisen!" Whence come you? "From Rome."
Ah, now I believe. He is risen, indeed.
Ride on with the news, at the top of your speed!
(
Great applause among the crowd.
)
To come back to my text! When the news was first spread
That Christ was arisen indeed from the dead,