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[...] The Son of God, who [is] in the bosom of the Father, [as] a forty-day-old child is borne in the arms of the elder, and is manifestly made known: Alleluia. Wherefore Simeon also exulted in the Spirit [and] cried out in the temple: "Now dismiss Thy servant, O Lord, according to Thy word, in peace; for all around I have seen the Savior": Alleluia.

RUBRIC: Canon of Palm Sunday: Midday Hymn (*šarakan* [hymn]). End.

[Midday (*Čʿašu*), Plagal of the Fourth Tone (*DK*)] The unoriginate Word of the Father, who resteth upon the Cherubim, today, seated upon a new colt: Blessed [art Thou], O King who art come, invincible King! The Son [begotten] before the ages, who sitteth upon the four-formed [creatures], today was glorified by the old and by the children: Blessed [art Thou]... Come, O new peoples, with the multitude of the ranks of the bodiless [hosts], let us glorify Him with the resonance of song [and] with a sweet voice: Blessed [art Thou]...