ST. FIECH'S METRICAL LIFE OF ST. PATRICK.

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Written in the Irish Language about 1,400 years ago.

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      At Nemthur Saint Patrick was born,

       As history handed it down;

       And when but sixteen years of age,

       A captive was led from that town.

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      Siccoth was Saint Patrick's first name;

       His father Calphurn without miss;

       His grandfather Otide was styled;

       He was nephew of Deacon Odisse.

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      Six years did he live in dark bonds,

       And the food of the Gentile ate not;

       And Cathraige by men he was called,

       Since to work for four homes was his lot.

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      To the servant of Milcho 'twas said

       To pass o'er the seas and the plain;

       Then stood angel Victor on rock,

       And his footprints to this day remain.

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      Departed Saint Patrick o'er Alps--

       On his way all successful he hies;

       And with German remained in the South

       'Neath Letavia's wide-spreading skies.

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      In the isles of the Tyrrhenian sea

       Saint Patrick some period awaits,

       And as canon with German he reads,

       As his history still to us states

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      To Hibernia Saint Patrick returned,

       By visions from angels induced;

       For visions to him appeared oft,

       And his mind to subjection reduced.

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      Soul-saving was Patrick's intent,

       For 'twas to far Foclut's dark flood;

       He had heard the entreaty and wail

       Of children in Foclut's far woods.

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      For asked they the saint to make haste

       And Letavia's wide lands desert,

       That from error's dark ways Eire's men

       He might in life's pathways direct.

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      Foretold Eire's seers years of peace,

       Which were to remain through all time;

       But the grandeurs of Tara the proud

       Were to vanish in dust, as earth's slime.

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      To Leary, the monarch, Druids told

       Of the advent of Patrick the saint;

       And their visions were true, as we know

       From the facts which his histories paint.

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      Renowned was Saint Patrick through life,

       And of error he was a dire foe;

       Hence for ever his name shall be grand

       Among the nations, as ages shall flow.

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      The Apocalypse sang he, and hymns,

       And three fifty full psalms, day by day;

       He instructed and praised and baptized,

       And all time he continued to pray.

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