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A version of The Kontakion with a setting by Vancouver Musician Rupert Lang. 

Give rest unto your servants with your saints, O God.
Where there is neither pain nor sorrow, neither sighing, but life everlasting.

For you, God only are immortal; the creator and the maker of us all,
And we are mortal formed of the earth, and to the earth we shall return.

For so did you ordain when you created me saying:
"You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
All of us go down to the dust, yet even at the grave we make our song:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia."