The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick. Various

brave Josue stood the bright sun

       To witness the wicked all slain;

       Why not for Saint Patrick thrice more

       To illumine Hibernia's plain?

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      For all Eire's good clergy were come

       To bury Saint Patrick with pride;

       And the sounds of the singing from heaven

       Cast them sleeping all round, far and wide.

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      Saint Patrick's pure soul fled his frame

       (His works immortality make);

       And on the first night after death,

       The angels of God watched his wake.

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      And when Patrick departed from life,

       To the other Saint Patrick came he;

       And to Jesus, of Mary the Son,

       The two passed, bright and pure, great and free.

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      In Patrick pride's stain was not found;

       And great were the works that adorn

       This good son of Christ, Mary's Son!

       With God's blessing Saint Patrick was born.