Ephrem Lash
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Anastasis liturgical translations — translated by Ephrem Lash
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TONE 5
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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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**PLAGAL OF THE FIRST**
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Mournful you are and greatly pitying,
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But for the most part rhythmically you dance.
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O mind, which art with music has informed,
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Which is the bent oblique of plagal tones?
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Rank holds you fifth, but first of the unique,
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And calls you so, O Plagal of the First.
Translated by Ephrem Lash. Edition lash.en.anastasis.