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When all the godly servants

Began to weep and moan

Like wicked gypsy women,

Who for their sins atone.

With them the chorus singers,

Musicians, acolytes,

The gravediggers and cantors,

Even the proselytes.

The clergy then sent forward

One, who with solemn zeal

Should importune His Tsarship

Presenting this appeal: