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[92.] This is a translation of the famous Latin motto in hoc signo vinces.

2. The Discovery of the Cross

[Striving] in strength and with steadfast heart,

830 He began to delve for the glorious tree

Under its covering of turf, till at twenty feet

Below the surface concealed he found

Shut out from sight, under the shelving cliff,

In the chasm of darkness —three crosses he found,

In their gloomy grave together he found them,—