"I am the Resurrection and the Life."
Whereat he opened his eyes wide at once,
And sat up of himself, and looked at us;
And thenceforth nobody pronounced a word:
Only, outside, the Bactrian cried his cry
Like the lone desert-bird that wears the ruff,
As signal we were safe, from time to time.
First he said, "If a friend declared to me,
This my son Valens, this my other son,
Were James and Peter,—nay, declared as well