OF

The Eastern Church.

TRANSLATED,

WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION,

BY

THE REV. J. M. NEALE, D.D.,

Warden of Sackville College.

·BOD

LONDON:

J. T. HAYES, LYALL PLACE, EATON SQUARE.
NEW YORK: POTT & AMERY.

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.

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ΤΟ

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.