I remember’d what the prophet said, I am earth and I am dust; and again I meditated in the graves, and saw the naked bones, and said, Who now is king, or, warrior, who; or, who is rich, or, who is poor; or, who the just, or, he that sinn’d? But, with the just, thy servant rest, O Lord. _Verse._ Our feet have stood in thy courts, O Jerusalem. Thou, Christ, hast said that he in thee believing shall not death behold: but, as I out of light in light am light, so shall ye also in my glory be enlightened in me; for I, that am true God, have come to save them that revere me in true right-belief, me, one Lord God, in dual nature of deity and flesh, but one in essence. Therefore, thy faithful servant, who thus confesseth thee, rest in thy countenance’s light among the Saints, as lover of mankind. _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._ We thee beseech, as Mother of God, O blessed one, Pray thou for us, that we be sav’d. _Stichera, tone vi._ To me thy life-effecting bidding was substance and origin; for, willing me to form a living one from nature that unseen is and is seen, my body thou didst make of earth, and, by thy breathing life-creating and divine, me gavest soul. Therefore, O Christ, thy servant rest in tract of them that living are, and in the dwellings of the just. _Verse._ Unto thee have I lifted up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in heaven. That which thy hands did frame thou with thine image honour’d hast, O Word; for, in material form inscribing livingly a mental essence’s similitude, of this me also thou hast made participant, placing me on the earth to be, of mine own power, creation’s lord. Therefore, thy servant, Saviour, rest in tract of them that living are, and in the dwellings of the just. _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._ God-bearing Virgin, we have understood the God made flesh from thee, whom do thou pray to save our souls. _Stichera, tone vii._ After thine image and resemblance in the beginning making man, in paradise thou him didst place to be of thy creation lord; but, by the devil’s enviousness beguil’d, he ate the fruit, transgressing thy commands. Therefore again to earth, whence he was taken, thou hast doom’d him to return, O Lord, and beg for rest. _Verse._ How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts. Death looseth every grief befalling Adam’s nature; for corrupt we have become, partaking of the food. Then let us learn, form’d out of earth, we dust and ashes shall become, like as we were before. Therefore let us with wailing voice our Maker pray pardon and mercy to bestow on him removed hence. _Glory. Both now. Theotokion._