HYMNS OF The Eastern Church

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TRANSLATED, WITH NOTES AND AND AN INTRODUCTION, BY THE REV. J. M. NEALE, D.D., Warden of Sackville College. FIFTH EDITION LONDON: J. T. HAYES, 17 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN

[Electronic edition with material from the first edition:

LONDON: J. T. Hayes, 5, LYALL PLACE, EATON SQ.1862.]

Sion's lyre, thou best content

That e'er Heav'n to mortals lent,

Though they as a trifle leave thee,

Whose dull thoughts cannot conceive thee,

Though to them thou be a scorn

Who to nought but earth are born,

May my life no longer be

Than I am in love with thee!

WITHER

TO THE SUPERIOR AND THE OTHER SISTERS OF The House of Mercy at Clewer. WITH THANKFULNESS FOR THEIR PAST, AND PRAYERS FOR THEIR FUTURE SUCCESS, THESE HYMNS ARE DEDICATED.