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Rh word—of the verion was carefully fitted to the muic, and the length of the lines correponds to the length of each troparion in the original."

"If it be aid that the original melody is difficult, I can only reply that I have frequently heard it ung by a choir of children, of ages varying from four to fourteen; and never more prettily than when, without any accompaniment at all, in the open fields—the very mall ones joining in for the greater part with the whole of their little energy."—Mediæval Hymns.