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 is taken into Slavery |
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St Patrick is taken into Slavery
There were pirates then, I trow,With vultures at their ship's prow:
Great bearded men with eyes so fierce,
Armed with cutlasses and spears.
That was an evil day's surprise,
Or so it seemed to human eyes,
When on the peaceful place they swooped—
A blight on the good land new-cropped—
Burnt and slew ladies and their lords.
God save us from such pirate hordes!
Nor little ones nor old did spare:
Fiercer than Goths and Huns they were.
They took Patrick, the fair child,
From the arms of his mother mild,
And carried him into slavery
To Erin set in the Western Sea.
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