The rhymed life of St Patrick Written by Katharine Tynan: With pictures by L. D. Symington: And a foreword by Lieut.-General Sir William Butler |
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St Patrick rests with St Martin
St Martin of Tours, the story ran,Shared his cloak with a beggar man;
And afterwards in a vision saw
The King of Heaven on His Throne of awe
In the half of the cloak the beggar had.
(Doubtless said Martin then, dismayed,
“I wish I had given the other half.”)
He was St Patrick's cousin and staff.
His monastery, Marmoutiers,
Brought many pilgrim feet that way;
Upon the banks of Loire it lay.
There for awhile Patrick abode,
Had sweetest rest upon his road,
And there was made a priest of God.
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