Him that is dead in hope of resurrection grant the holy standing, Word, at thy right hand with thine elect, prolongedly with voice of praise we pray, O lover of mankind. Thy chosen servant from the earth remov’d, O lover of mankind, count worthy brightly to rejoice within thy kingdom heavenly and rever’d; and overlook, as loving-kind, his soul’s iniquities. _Glory._ Alas! life’s glory grew as grass, and straightway was dried up. Where in the grave is honour? and where form or beauty there? Then spare thy servant, Lord, as being loving-kind. _Both now. Theotokion._ With love, as it behoves, we thee all praise, O Mary, Mother of God, Virgin most pure; for thou hast ever sleepless eyes—thy prayers—to save us now from sins, and from the doom of death. _Ode iii. Irmos._ There is none holy like to thee, O Lord my God.... There is no man on earth that hath not sinn’d, O Word. Therefore accept a prayer from us, the lowly ones: and, Saviour, pardon and forgive thy servant all iniquities. And who, O lover of mankind, as thou, Lord merciful, forgivest sins of quick and dead with great authority? Therefore thy servant do thou save by this. _Glory._ Of calling from on high, O Saviour, him heritor declare, even him gone hence in faith, accepting his last tearful prayer, thou only sinless one. _Both now. Theotokion._ O thou that art our Queen, all holy Virgin, cease not beseeching God, whom thou didst bear, to count him worthy of his kingdom, even him who hence in faith hath gone. _Kathisma, tone vi._ Verily everything is vain, and life a shadow is, a dream; for vainly every earth-born one disquieteth himself, as saith the scripture. When we have gain’d the world, then dwell we in the grave, where kings and beggars are as one. Therefore, O Christ, thy servant rest in tract of living ones, and in the dwellings of the just. _Ode iv. Irmos._ Thy divine exhaustion on the cross.... Since importable is the terrible threatening of that day, let us unceasingly beseech of Christ forgiveness of all sins for him that hath in faith and hope of resurrection hither gone. Since, through penitence, he, thy servant, unto thee a lamp enkindled brightly ere his death, O Master, Saviour loving-kind, vouchsafe to him in brightly wise thy bridal-room. _Glory._ When all things hid thou dost reveal, and prove our sins, O Christ, him whom thou hast receiv’d do thou then spare, remembering his confession, Lord. _Both now. Theotokion._ Holy God-bearing one, forget not all that cry to thee with ceaseless wail; and find him rest, thou blessed one, even him, thy faithful servant, who is gone from us. _Ode v. Irmos._ Of thy divine epiphany, O Christ....