"The woman who had fallen into many sins, perceiving Thy divinity, O
Lord, fulfilled the part of a myrrh-bearer; and with lamentations she
brought sweet-smelling oil of myrrh to Thee before Thy burial. ‘Woe is
me’, she said, ‘for night surrounds me, dark and moonless, and stings my
lustful passion with the love of sin. Accept the fountain of my tears, O
Thou who drawest down from the clouds the waters of the sea, Incline to
the groanings of my heart, O Thou who in Thine ineffable self-emptying
hast bowed down the heavens. I shall kiss Thy most pure feet and wipe
them with the hairs of my head, those feet whose sound Eve heard at dusk
in Paradise, and hid herself for fear. Who can search out the multitude
of my sins and the abyss of Thy judgements, O Saviour of my soul?
Despise me not, Thine handmaiden, for Thou hast mercy without measure."
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