As we turn the pages on which Daniel and Mone have recorded these hymns of the earliest age of the Church, we observe that they are either in praise of Christ or of God, or are songs of worship for the morning or the evening. Their simplicity is admirable. Here is one called ἦχος—an “Echo”—literally rendered:
“We who have risen from our sleep
Worship before thee, O Good One.
And, of the angels the hymn
We cry aloud to thee, thou Mighty One;
Holy, holy art thou, O God,
And of thy mercy have pity on us!
“From my couch and from my sleep
Thou hast raised me, O Lord;
Enlighten my mind and my heart,