875 A lifeless youth. Then was lifted the heart

Of Judas in great rejoicing and gladness.

He commanded them to set the soulless man,

With life cut off, the corpse on the earth,

Bereft of life, and there was raised aloft

880 By the proclaimer of justice, the crafty of heart,

The trusty in counsel, two of the crosses

Over that house of death. It was dead as before

The body fast to the bier: about the chill limbs

Was grievous doom. Then began the third cross