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Rh Susskind, thou speakeat well I We will meet death With dance and song. Embrace him as a bride. So that the Lord receive us in His tent.

Amen! amen! amen! we dance to death ! SUsskind, go forth and beg this grace of them. [Exit SUsskind. Punish us not in wrath, chastise us not In anger, oh oar God ! Our Bina o'erwhelm Our Bmitten heada, they are a grievous load ; We look on our iniquitiea, we tremble, Knowing our trespaases. Forsake us not. Be thou not far from us. Haste to our aid, Oh G!od, who art our Sariour and our Rock !

Brethren, our prayer, being the last, is granted. The hour approaches. Let our thoughts ascend From mortal anguish to the ecstasy Of martyrdom, the blessed death of those Who perish in the Lord. I see, I see How lsrael's ever-crescent glory makes