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His druids on Leary
The coming of Patrick concealed not.
Most true were the prophecies
To their sovereign they declared.
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Pious was Patrick till death,
He was powerful in expelling evil :
This is what spread his praise
Up to every nation of mankind.
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Hymns, and the Apocalypse,
And the three fifties of psalms he habitually sung.
He preached, baptized and prayed :
From the praising of God he ceased not.
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The sharpness of the cold of the weather did not
stop him;
He stood by night in the waters
For a watchful, heavenly, or clean conscience to keep;
He preached by day on hills.
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In converting the country of Benna Boirche
He did not take lukewarmness; amidst its rocks
The singing of a hundred psalms each night
To the king of angels he performed.
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He went on a bare stone afterwards,
And a wet coverlit about him.
It was his sins to banish
He did not allow his body get into heat.
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In preaching the gospel to every one
He wrought more miracles in Letavia:
He healed the blind with fasting,
The dead he raised to life.
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Patrick, during his preaching to the Scots [Irish]
Suffered greater hardships compared to Letavia,
That they might come to judgment
In holiness worthy of life.
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The sons of Heber and the sons of Heremon
All followed the devil;
Yet the host of the Devil rolled
In the great road of hell.
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Until the Apostle arrived
He proceeded, though the winds were severe.
He preached three score of years
The cross of Christ to the people of Fenias.
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Over the peoples of Eire was darkness;
Peoples adoring idols :
They believed not in the true divinity —
In the true Trinity.
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In Armagh is sovereignty,
And a head for the government of Emania,
