InthenameoftheFather,theSonandtheHolySpirit,OneGod.Amen.CopticOrthodoxPatriarchateSt.MaryandSt.JosephCOPTICORTHODOXCHURCHVespers&Matins+ThanksgivingPrayer1-EpiEprosEvke2-EprosEveksaste3-TovHinaEnteEfnouti(PraythatGodhavemercy)+VersesofCymbals+LongLitanies4-LitanyofDeparted-invespers5-LitanyofSick-inmatins...
But I will lift my poor chained hands to God, And for my children pray, and for myfoes4. Beside the graves where thousands lowly lie I kneel, and weeping for eachslaughtered5son, I turn my gaze to my own sunny sky, And pray, O Father, let Thy will be done! My heart is filled ...
And all was still —— still as a temple dim, When low and faint, As murmurs3 plaint, Dies the last note of the Vesper hymn4. A bark slept on the sea, and in the bark Slept Mary's Son -The only One Whose face is light! where all, all else, is dark. His brow was heavenward...
To-day a bird on wings as white asfoam1Thatcrests2the blue-gray wave, With the vesper light upon its breast, flew home Seaward. The God who gave To the birds the virgin-wings of snow Somehow telleth them the ways they go. Unto the Evening went the white-winged bird —— Gray cloud...