Ephrem Lash
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Anastasis liturgical translations — translated by Ephrem Lash
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TONE 3
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At the end of each of the eight Tones in the Paraklitiki there is a short set of doggerel lines describing the characteristics of the Tone in question. For the entertainment of readers I include equally doggerel translations of them at the beginning of each Tone.
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**THIRD TONE**
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Though third, yet to express brave manly toils,
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Close neighbour of the first are you, O Third.
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Plain, simple, wholly masculine, O Third,
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You are, and so we honour you, O Third.
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Source of a multitude of equal count, O Third,
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You to a well-tuned multitude belong.
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.