{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec54.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec54.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec54.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nCanon for Apocreos\nby Theodore of the Studium\n\u1f10\u03c6\u03ad\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03ba\u03b5\u03bd \u1f21 \u1f21\u03bc\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1.\nThe Day is near, the Judgment is at hand,\n Awake, my soul, awake, and ready stand!\n Where chiefs shall go with them that filled the throne,\n Where rich and poor the same tribunal own;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And every thought and deed\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shall find its righteous meed.\nThere with the sheep the shepherd of the fold\n Shall stand together; there the young and old;\n Master and slave one doom shall undergo;\n Widow and maiden one tribunal know.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Oh woe, oh woe, to them\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Whom lawless lives condemn!\nThat Judgment-seat, impartial in decree,\n Accepts no bribe, admits no subtilty:\n No orator persuasion may exert,\n No perjured witness wrong to right convert:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But all things, hid in night,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shall then be dragged to light.\nLet me not enter in the land of woe,\n Let me not realms of outer darkness know!\n Nor from the wedding-feast reject Thou me,\n For my soiled vest of immortality;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bound hand and foot, and cast\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In anguish that shall last!\nWhen Thou, the nations ranged on either side,\n The righteous from the sinners shalt divide,\n Then give me to be found amongst Thy sheep,\n Then from the goats Thy trembling servant keep:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That I may hear the voice\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That bids Thy Saints rejoice!\nWhen righteous inquisition shall be made,\n And the books opened, and the thrones arrayed,\n My soul, what plea to shield thee canst thou know,\n Who hast no fruit of righteousness to show,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No holy deeds to bring\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To Christ the Lord and King?\nI hear the rich man's wail and bitter cry,\n Out of the torments of eternity;\n I know, beholding that devouring flame,\n My guilt and condemnation are the same;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And spare me, Lord, I say,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the great Judgment Day!\nThe Word and Spirit, with the Father One,\n One Light and emanation of One Sun,\n The Word by generation, we adore,\n The Spirit by procession, evermore;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And with creation raise\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The thankful hymn of praise.","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: Theodore of the Studium: Canon for Apocreos. Ode IV","type":"page"}