St Romanos the Melodist: Behold our King, meek and gentle, seated on the colt...
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Behold our King, meek and gentle, seated on the colt. Draws near with haste to suffer and to cut off the passions; The Word upon an irrational beast wishing to deliver rational creatures; And it was possible to see on the back of a colt the One who rides on the shoulders of the Cherubim,
Who once took up Elias in a fiery chariot, He who is rich by nature making himself poor by design, And weak by intention, he who empowers All those who cry to him, ‘Blessed are you Who come to call back Adam’.
St Romanos the Melodist
