[This
is sung during the thursday before Easter and it is supposed to be the lament
of virgin Mary when she saw the dead Jesus]
(Words:)
-”The perfume-bringing women sprinkled the grave with perfumes, having come
very early in the morning; Your all-pure mother started lamenting because you,
Word, were dead. And the young girl” [this still means the V.M., never mind how
old she was!] “was crying, with warm tears, tearing her insides”
- “Oh, my sweet spring, my sweetest child, where has your beauty set?”
[The word used is special for the setting of the sun, so the beauty of Jesus
has set like the sun. And of course, Jesus was the Word, as in the beginning of
John’s gospel].
- “All the generations praise by [a] hymn your burial, [my Good/Beautiful]”
- “Oh, my sweet spring” [ etc.]
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