Hymns of the Eastern Church: tr. by J.M. Neale, Issue 1611863 - 16 pages |
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... thou at rest ! Sorrow can never be , - Darkness must fly , - Where saith the Light of Light , " Peace ! It is 1 ! " JESU , Deliverer ! Come Thou to me : Soothe B 2 8. ANATOLIUS . 3 Stichera for a Sunday of the First Tone.
... thou at rest ! Sorrow can never be , - Darkness must fly , - Where saith the Light of Light , " Peace ! It is 1 ! " JESU , Deliverer ! Come Thou to me : Soothe B 2 8. ANATOLIUS . 3 Stichera for a Sunday of the First Tone.
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... darkness light , And save me through the coming night ! The toils of day are over : I raise the hymn to Thee ; And ask that free from peril The hours of fear may be . O JESU ! keep me in Thy sight , And guard me through the coming night ...
... darkness light , And save me through the coming night ! The toils of day are over : I raise the hymn to Thee ; And ask that free from peril The hours of fear may be . O JESU ! keep me in Thy sight , And guard me through the coming night ...
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... darkness was succeeded by a blaze of light from thousands of tapers , which com- municating one from another , seemed to send streams of fire in all directions , render- ing the minutest objects distinctly visible , and casting the most ...
... darkness was succeeded by a blaze of light from thousands of tapers , which com- municating one from another , seemed to send streams of fire in all directions , render- ing the minutest objects distinctly visible , and casting the most ...
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... the monumental stone , A dweller in the house of darkness , Amidst the dead to lie alone . Let us say , around him pressed , Grant him , LORD , eternal rest ! Life , and life's evil conversation , And all its 50 S. JOHN DAMASCENE .
... the monumental stone , A dweller in the house of darkness , Amidst the dead to lie alone . Let us say , around him pressed , Grant him , LORD , eternal rest ! Life , and life's evil conversation , And all its 50 S. JOHN DAMASCENE .
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... darkness mouldering on ; Earth gathers round the coffin , hiding The brother , now for ever gone . Yet we cry , around him pressed , Grant him , LORD , eternal rest ! When , hurried forth by fearful angels , The soul 52 S. JOHN DAMASCENE .
... darkness mouldering on ; Earth gathers round the coffin , hiding The brother , now for ever gone . Yet we cry , around him pressed , Grant him , LORD , eternal rest ! When , hurried forth by fearful angels , The soul 52 S. JOHN DAMASCENE .
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acrostich Adam adore Anatolius of Constantinople Angel blest called Canon Catavasia Cento CHRIST is risen commemorated compositions Constantine Constantinople Cosmas Council of Nicæa cry with heart's darkness death earth earthly Eastern Church ecclesiastical poetry eternal evermore faith Fathers gladness glorious glory grace Gregory Nazianzen Habakkuk heart heart's endeavour Heav'n heavenly Hirmos Holy art Thou Hymnographers hymns Iconoclasts Icons Idiomela immortality Incarnate JESUS John Damascene King Latin Leo the Armenian light LORD Manichæism Martyrs mercy mighty Monarch Monothelite mortal night o'er Octoechus Pascha peace Pentecostarion poet praise Priest Quinquagesima Resurrection rhymes SACKVILLE COLLEGE Saints SAVIOUR Septuagesima Sequence shalt sing Sion song Sophronius sorrow soul SPIRIT stand stanzas STICHERA sticheron Studium Sunday Synaxarion Thee Thine Thou art bless'd Throne to-day tomb Triodion troparia Troparion verse victory Virgin Wherefore we cry wondrous words ἐκ ἐν καὶ τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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Page 86 - Hath He marks to lead me to Him, If He be my guide ? " In His feet and hands are wound-prints And His side.
Page 38 - And, listening to His accents, May hear, so calm and plain, His own "All hail !" and, hearing, May raise the victor-strain.
Page 127 - The cross that Jesus carried he carried as your due: the crown that Jesus weareth he weareth it for you.
Page 129 - SAFE HOME, SAFE HOME IN PORT. (From the Greek.) AFE home, safe home in port ! Rent cordage, shattered deck, Torn sails, provisions short, And only not a wreck...
Page 55 - THOSE eternal bowers Man hath never trod, Those unfading flowers Round the throne of GOD. Who may hope to gain them After weary fight ? Who at length attain them Clad in robes of white ? He, who gladly barters All on earthly ground ; He who, like the martyrs, Says ' I will be crowned ' : He, whose one oblation Is a life of love ; Clinging to the nation Of the blest above.
Page 6 - The toils of day are over: I raise the hymn to Thee, And ask that free from peril The hours of fear may be : O Jesu, keep me in Thy sight, And guard me through the coming night...
Page 58 - Neither might the gates of death, Nor the tomb's dark portal, Nor the watchers, nor the seal, Hold Thee as a mortal : But to-day amidst the Twelve Thou didst stand, bestowing That Thy peace, which evermore Passeth human knowing.
Page 6 - Be Thou my soul's preserver, O GOD ! for Thou dost know How many are the perils Through which I have to go: Lover of men, O hear my call, And guard and save me from them all.
Page 3 - Lower thy crest ! Wail of Euroclydon, Be thou at rest! Sorrow can never be, Darkness must fly, Where saith the Light of Light, "Peace! It is I.
Page xxx - The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together : against the Lord, and against his Anointed. 3 Let us break their bonds asunder : and cast away their cords from us.