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 takes the Shamrock for a Text |
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St Patrick takes the Shamrock for a Text
The King at last his Druids spurned;Gave Patrick the word for which he burned,
To preach the Gospel of Christ, unfearing,
Up and down through the land of Erin;
Yet chose darkness himself. It was
At Tara that Patrick sought in the grass,
Found the dear Shamrock, and preached: Lo, see
The Miracle of the Trinity!
Lo, “Three in One and One in Three!”
Great numbers there received the Faith,
Ransomed to Christ from darkness and death.
Great honour that little shamrock has,
That grows so green in the Irish grass.
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