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HYMN ON ST. PATRICK

I

 
Patrick was born at heavenly Tours,
As it is ascertained in stories;
A youth of sixteen years
At the time he was brought under bondage.
 

II

 
Succat his name at the beginning;
Who his father was, be it known
Son of Calphurn, son of Otidé,
Descended from the Deacon Odissé.
 

III

 
He was six years in servitude,
The food of the people he eat not,
They were all by him supported,
Four tribes to whom he was enslaved.
 

IV

 
Victor (the angel) said to the servant
Of Milcho: depart over the waves,
He (Victor) placed his foot upon a stone
His marks after him remained.
 

V

 
He departed over all the mountains,
O'er sea, prosperous was his flight.
He dwelled along with German,
Southward of the southermost part of Letavia.
 

VI

 
In the islands of the Touronian sea
He resided, as related;
He read his Canons with German,
As is certified to us.
 

VII

 
Towards Ireland he proceeds,
Warned by God's angels in apparitions,
Often saw he in his sleep
That he ought to return.
 

VIII

 
Great the assistance to Eire,
The coming of Patrick to Oclat:
He heard the long sound of entreaties
Of children from the wood of Foclat.
 

IX

 
They implored the saint may come
Upon forsaking Letavia,
For drawing from error's propensity
The people of Eire to life.
 

X

 
The people of Eire prophesy
That there will come new days of peace,
Existing till the end of time;
Desert will be in the country of Tara.
 

XI

 
O Druid! upon Laoree,
The coming of Patrick you hid not;
Too true the prophecies
Respecting the sovereign you predicted.
 

XII

 
Prudent was Patrick during life;
Pleasing was in banishing evil propensities;
This is what extended his fame
Up to each tribe of people.
 

XIII

 
He hymns, and revelations,
And the three fifties daily sung:
He preached, baptized, and prayed,
From praising God he never ceased.
 

XIV

 
He felt not the cold of the season;
He stayed the night in the waters,
With heaven to be blessed as his kingdom,
He preached through the day on the hills.
 

XV

 
In saving the people of Benibarka
He experienced neither drought nor hunger;
He sang an hundred psalms each night,
The King of angels to serve.
 

XVI

 
He then rested on a bare stone,
And a wet coverlid over him,
A rock was his pillow,
He left not his body in indolence.
 

XVII

 
He preached the Gospel to all;
He worked great miracles at Letavia
He healed the blind with fasting,
The dead he awoke to life.
 

XVIII

 
Patrick preached to the Scotians
After he underwent great labours in Letavia,
That they may come to judgment,
Each whom he guided to life.
 

XIX

 
The sons of Emir, the sons of Erimor,
Were all following after the devil,
Buried was the Armament
In the great depths of hell.
 

XX

 
Till the Apostle arrived
Who preserved them tho' dreadful the blasts
He preached three score years
The cross of Christ to the people of the Phenians.
 

XXI

 
On the people of Eire was darkness,
People adoring idols;
They believed not in the Godhead
Nor in the true Trinity.
 

XXII

 
In Armagh is the seat of royalty;
Long has been the prerogative of Emania,
And of the great church at Dundalethglas,
Nor is it pleasant that Teamar be tribeless.
 

XXIII

 
Patrick being about to sicken,
For alleviation on going to Armagh,
An angel came upon his head
On the way, in the middle of the day.
 

XXIV

 
He proceeded southerly to Victor (angel)
It was he who sent for him,
Blaze does the bush in which he (Victor) was
Out of the blaze he him addressed.
 

XXV

 
There is granted rule to Armagh,
To Christ for this be given thanks:
Thou, to heaven, great shalt come,
To thee prosperous has been thy petition.
 

XXVI

 
A hymn, sung by thee, while living,
Will be a protecting coat of mail to all
In the day of judgment with thee
The men of Erie will go to be judged.
 

XXVII

 
Tassac remained after him,
The time he gave the communion to him,
He predicted that Patrick would not return
The sayings of Tassach were not false.
 

XXVIII

 
Subside does the end of the night,
Whereupon they had great light,
Till the year's end continued the lights,
This was the protracted day.
 

XXIX

 
The battle fought in Bethoron,
Against the people of Canaan by Nun's son
The sun sat over Gabaon,
It is what scripture records to us.
 

XXX

 
As then stood for Joshua,
The sun for the death of the ill-inclined
Why not trebly greater be this