{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec67.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec67.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec67.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nCanon for Ascension Day\nby S. Joseph of the Studium\n\u1fe5\u03b1\u03bd\u03ac\u03c4\u03c9\u03c3\u03b1\u03bd \u1f20\u03bc\u1fd6\u03bd \u1f04\u03bd\u03c9\u03b8\u03b5\u03bd,\nR\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ain down, ye heav'ns, eternal bliss!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Cherub-cloud to-day\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bears Jesus where His Father is,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Along the starry way!\nS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0under\u2019d of old were Heaven and Earth:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But Thou, Incarnate King!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hast made them one by that Thy Birth,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And this Thy triumphing.\n'T\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hy victor-raiment, wherefore red?\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What mean the marks of pain\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That print Thy form?'\u2014the Angels said,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The ascending Monarch's train.\nCatavas\u00eda.\nV\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ery Oblation, by the scourges torn!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Nailed to the bitter Cross, O Virgin-born!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As once the Prophet from the monster's maw,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So now Thy love, accomplishing the Law,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Adam from utter death to perfect Life would draw.\nOicos.\n\u03c4\u1f70 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03b3\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f10\u03c0\u1f76 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u03b3\u1fc6\u03c2.\nV\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0anities earthly in earth will we lay,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ashes with ashes, the dust with the clay:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lift up the heart, and the eye, and the love,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lift up thyself, to the regions above:\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Since the Immortal hath entered of late,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mortals may pass at the heavenly gate.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stand we on Olivet: mark Him ascend,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Whose is the glory and might without end;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There, with His own ones, the Giver of Good\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Blessing them once more, a little while stood.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"Nothing can part us,\u2014nor distance, nor foes,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lo! I am for you, and who can oppose?\"","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Joseph of the Studium: Canon for Ascension Day. Ode VI.","type":"page"}