_Troparion._ Come, let us in the vine’s new fruit participators be of joy divine on the auspicious day of resurrection to Christ’s kingdom, singing him, as God, for aye. _Troparion._ Lift up thine eyes, O Sion, round about, and see; for, lo! thy children come to thee, as lights by God illum’d, from the west and from the north, from the sea and from the east, in thee blessing Christ for aye. _Verse._ O most holy Trinity, glory to thee, our God. _Troparion._ Almighty Father, Word, and Spirit, nature conjoin’d in persons three, superessential, God most high, in thee baptized we have been, and thee we bless for evermore. _Ode ix._ _Irmos._ Shine, shine, O new Jerusalem; for the glory of the Lord is risen on thee. Exult now, and rejoice, O Sion; and thou, O pure God-bearing one, be glad at the rising of thy Child. _Verse._ My soul him magnifies, who willingly did suffer and was buried, and rose the third day from the grave, even Christ, the Giver of life. _Troparion._ O voice of thee divine, most sweet, and dear! for thou hast promis’d undeceivingly to be with us, O Christ, until the ages end, which holding as hope’s stablishment, let us, the faithful, joyful be. _Verse._ Christ is the Pascha new, the living sacrifice, the Lamb of God, who the world’s sins doth take away. _Troparion._ O Christ, thou great most sacred Pasch, wisdom, and Word of God, and power! grant us in wise more perfect to partake of thee thy kingdom’s day in that no evening hath. _Exapostilarion. Tone ii._ Asleep in flesh as mortal, King and Lord, on the third day thou didst arise, arousing Adam from corruption and destroying death, O Pasch of immortality, salvation of the world. _Stichera. Tone v._ _Verse._ Let God arise.... To-day the sacred Pascha is made manifest to us, the new, the holy Pasch, the Pascha mystical, the Pascha all-rever’d, the Pascha, even Christ the ransomer, the Pascha undefil’d, the Pascha great, the faithful’s Pasch, the Pasch that opes the gates of Paradise to us, the Pasch that halloweth all that faithful be. _Verse._ As smoke is driven away.... Come from that spectacle, ye women-gospellers, and unto Sion say, Receive from us the joyful tidings of Christ’s resurrection. Be fervent, dance, and joy, Jerusalem, beholding Christ the King proceed as bridegroom from the grave. _Verse._ So let the sinners perish.... The women bearing myrrh at early dawn stood the Life-giver’s grave before, and found an angel sitting on the stone, and he, accosting them, spake thus, Why seek the living mid the dead? why the corruptless wail as though he in corruption were? Go, tell ye his disciples this! _Verse._ This is the day which....