{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec78.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec78.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec78.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nby S. Stephen the Sabaite\nThese Stanzas, which strike me as very sweet, are not in all the editions of the Octoechus.\n\u03ba\u03cc\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 \u03ba\u03ac\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd.\nArt thou weary, art thou languid,\n \u00a0\u00a0Art thou sore distrest?\n \"Come to me \"\u2014saith One\u2014\"and coming,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Be at rest!\"\nHath He marks to lead me to Him,\n \u00a0\u00a0If He be my Guide?\n \"In Hip Feet and Hands are Wound-prints,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And His Side.\"\nIs there Diadem, as Monarch,\n \u00a0\u00a0That His Brow adorns?\n \"Yea, a Crown, in very surety,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But of Thorns!\"\nIf I find Him, if I follow,\n \u00a0\u00a0What His guerdon here?\n \"Many a sorrow, many a labour,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Many a tear.\"\nIf I still hold closely to Him,\n \u00a0\u00a0What hath He at last?\n \"Sorrow vanquish\u2019d, labour ended,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jordan past!\"\nIf I ask Him to receive me,\n \u00a0\u00a0Will He say me nay?\n \"Not till earth, and not till Heaven\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pass away!\"\nFinding, following, keeping, struggling,\n \u00a0\u00a0Is He sure to bless?\n \"Angels, Martyrs, Prophets, Virgins,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Answer, Yes!\"\n[No. 4. in Mr. Sedding's book: also No. 4 in H. E. C. Both very sweet melodies;\u2014but that in H. E. C., which gives a different version of the 4th line throughout, is, to my mind, singularly touching.]","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Stephen the Sabaite: Idiomela in the Week of the First Oblique Tone","type":"page"}