{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec63.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec63.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec63.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nThis is the crowning glory of the poet Joseph; he has here with a happy boldness entered into the lists with S. John Damascene, to whom, on this one occasion, he must be pronounced superior. I have preserved the alphabetic arrangement, and \"Joseph's Ode\" at the end. All the Catavasias are in Iambics.\nby S. Joseph of the Studium\n\u1f00\u03bd\u03ad\u03c3\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03ae\u03bc\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2.\nA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0fter three days Thou didst rise\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Visible to mortal eyes:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0First the Eleven worshipped Thee,\u2014\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then the rest in Galilee:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then a cloud in glory bore\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thee to Thine own native shore.\nB\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0oldly David pour'd the strain:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0God ascends to Heav\u2019n again:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With the trumpet's pealing note\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Alleluias round Him float;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As He now, by hard-won right,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Seeks the Fount of purest Light!\nC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0rime on crime, and grief on grief,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Left the world without relief:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Now that aged, languid race,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0God hath quickened by His grace:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As Thy going up we see,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Glory to Thy Glory be!\nCatavas\u00eda.\n\u03b8\u03ad\u03b9\u1ff3 \u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03c5\u03c6\u03b8\u03b5\u03af\u03c2.\nD\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0arkness and awe, when Sinai's top he trod,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Taught him of faltering tongue the Law of God: p. 211\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The mist was scattered from his spirit's eye,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He prais\u2019d and hymn\u2019d the Maker of the sky,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When He That is and was and shall be, passed by.","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Joseph of the Studium: Canon for Ascension Day. Ode I.","type":"page"}