love.

II

And there the Father for His Son
Had decked a glorious throne;
And clouds, His chariots, bore Him up,
That He might claim His own.

III

O strangest wonder e'er beheld,
Since ages hoar began,
The angels saw the highest place
Given to a Son of Man.

IV

"O all ye angels praise the Lord,"
The Holy Spirit commands,
"Lift up your gates, ye princes high,
Ye nations, clap your hands."

V

To God the Father throned on high,
And to the Son be praise,
And to the Spirit--Three in One,
From age to age, always.

Apolutikion of Pentecost

{eulogetos ei, Christe ho Theos hemon}

_Pentecostarion_, p. 188

I

Blessed art Thou, O Christ, our God,
Who to Thy followers gav'st
The wisdom they have shed abroad
By which the world Thou sav'st.

II

Thou gav'st to them the Holy Ghost
As Thou hadst promise given,
When came the day of Pentecost,
As breath of God from heaven.

III

And now by them, Thy faithful few,
The world Thou gatherest in,--
As by the net those fishers drew,--
From all the woes of sin.

IV

To Thee, O Father, glory be,
To Thee, O Christ, the Son,
And to the Spirit, One in Three,
While endless ages run.

Theotokion

{to ap' aionos apokryphon}

_Triodion_, p. 469

I

O Mystery, hidden from the world
Through all the ages past--
Even to the angel hosts unknown--
Is manifest at last;
And thou, Theotokos, hast given
Incarnate God, from highest heaven.

II

God in His fulness wears our flesh,
And from our sin and loss
Redeemed us by His pain and death
Upon the awful Cross.
Save us, through Him who cast away
The bands of death, we humbly pray.

Ode VI. of Cosmas The Monk.