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Page 260 - ... secure, Lest punishments hereafter For them we may endure. III. " He blessed with sweet devotion This penitential isle ; He chose as its director St. Dabheoc, without guile ; While hosts of saints and hermits here True happiness did find, By leaving home and worldly joys And kindred all behind. IV. " Throughout each station season, From every distant clime, The children of St. Patrick Frequent this holy shrine. Each pilgrim here is edified With piety sincere, And it's here each soul is purified...
Page 260 - Saint Patrick was its founder, At Heaven's express command, To cleanse away the sinful stains Of his own loved Ireland ; In hopes by prayer and penance here God's mercy to secure, Lest punishments hereafter For them we may endure.
Page 146 - ... and she very often provided her uncle Pat with a delicacy (taken from the burn) for his breakfast or dinner, or supper. It was only when we played caman — on Micky Thaig's mullin in summer, or on the frozen loch in winter — or when I joined in one of the Vagabone's madcap escapades, and forays, orchardrobbing and the like, that Nuala took no part ; and was oftentimes even kept completely ignorant of great happenings. Also I should have mentioned that, as she bitterly...
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