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By Anonymous Russian icon painter (before 1917) Public domain image (according to PD-RusEmpire) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Word has become silent,
To the grave, he is compliant.
He descends all through hell,
Without shouting, without a yell.
Covered by our defilement,
We hear not one lament.
One of the very Godhead,
Is now among the dead.
Dead
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