Verily vain and perishing are all the things of life, seeming, and gloriousless; for we all go away, all die, kings and princes, judges and them that mighty be, the rich and poor, and every mortal man; for now they that aforetime liv’d are cast into the grave, whom that the Lord may rest we pray. Now all the organs of the body idle are beheld, which active were but late, all without motion, without feeling, dead; for closed are the eyes, the feet are bound, the hands are listless, and with them the ears; the tongue is clos’d in silence, consigned to the grave: all human things are vanity indeed. Save them that put their trust in thee, O Mother of the Sun that setteth not, thou Bringer-forth of God: with thine entreaties, we beseech thee, pray the most good God to rest him now departed hence where rest the righteous souls; him of divine good things declare thou heir in halls of righteous ones, unto remembrance everlasting, thou all undefil’d. _Glory. Tone vi._ Me, lying voiceless and depriv’d of breath, beholding, bewail ye me, O brethren and O friends, O kinsfolk and acquaintances; for yesterday I spake with you, and suddenly on me came the dread hour of death. But, come ye, all that love me, and kiss me with the final kiss; for never shall I go with you again, or further converse hold with you. For I depart unto the judge, where no respect of persons is, where slave and lord together stand, the king and warrior, rich and poor, in equal worthiness; for each, according to his deeds, is glorified or sham’d. But I beg all, and all entreat unceasingly to pray Christ God for me, that, for my sins, I be not bidden unto torment’s place, but that he may appoint my lot where is the light of life. _Both now. Theotokion, the same tone._ Through her entreaties who to thee gave birth, O Christ, and those of thy forerunner, and of apostles, prophets, hierarchs, venerables, and just, and of all Saints, unto thy sleeping servant give thou rest. _Then_, Trisagion. O most holy Trinity.... Our Father.... _Priest._ For thine is the kingdom.... _Then_, With the spirits of the righteous.... _and the rest_. _The petition by the deacon_, Have mercy upon us, O God, according to thy great mercy.... _Vide page 142. And after the exclamation, Glory. Both now. And the dismissal._ He that arose from the dead, Christ our true God, through the prayers of his most pure Mother, of the holy glorious and all-praised apostles, of our venerable and God-bearing fathers, and of all the Saints, place the soul of his servant, _name_, departed from us, in the tabernacles of the just, rest it in the bosom of Abraham, and number it with the righteous, and have mercy upon us, as being good and the lover of mankind. Amen. _And the archpriest, or the principal priest, saith himself this thrice._ Thy remembrance is everlasting, O our deservedly blessed and ever remembered brother. _Thrice._