Ephrem Lash
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Anastasis liturgical translations — translated by Ephrem Lash
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TONE 4
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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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**FOURTH TONE**
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A festal and a dancing tone, you bear
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By musical opinion a fourth boast.
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Dancers you welcome, and you form them too,
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To voices give the prize, on cymbals beat.
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You, the fourth Tone, as filled with melodies,
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The serried lines of dancers eulogize.
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.