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 vanquishes Idols |
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St Patrick vanquishes Idols
He went Northwards where the false god,Crom Cruach, to whom the people bowed,
Stood with twelve lesser idols about him.
With the staff of Patrick the Saint then smote him
Full in the face; and the evil spirit
Shrieked in the idol for all to hear it,
And fled in a smoke for all to see.
The lesser idols next vanquished he.
The earth opened and did receive them,—
Buried to their necks now leave them.
He made an altar to the Lord,
Where Crom Cruach was long adored.
(Great shame and disgrace be his
That Archbishop of Heresies,
Who in Dublin burnt the Staff—
Black Shame be his epitaph!)
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