_Ego vitis vera._ Joan. xv. 1.
Credo quidem, sed et hoc hostis te credidit ipse
Caiaphas, et Judas credidit ipse, reor.
Unde illis, Jesu, vitis nisi vera fuisses,
Tanta tui potuit sanguinis esse sitis?
_I am the True Vine._
'Believe!' e'en Caiaphas, thy foe, believed
Thee the True Vine; and Judas too, I think.
Had they not, Lord, Thee as True Vine received,
Could they have thirsted so Thy Blood to drink? G.