Show N the days of tho the hedge school was then at tho the side of tho the ditch tho the moat dreaded of men suro sure the flight of the bird or tho the speed of tho the haro hare to watch for a moment theres no one would dare an when circles anti and squares on tho the dirt he would trace amazan the larnin that showed in his face while the thoughts that revolved in his dowsy head were deep and tremendous himself often said religion of boorse was a thame he well know knew not your cournow now notions but stu stuff ff that was true trite wid that he taught love for the sacred sod thus li elpin his kind anso his god now the seventeenth of march reckoned then by old style the jewel of days in the darling isle was i approach ln an so the good mas ther once more gave a taste to the byes av his bis legends an lore patrick banished the snakes and the sinners you know to a place where I 1 hope there will none of us go the accepted but I 1 have it right A tale that hates bates that out 0 mind out 0 sight at tara ho he preached to the king and the chiefs 11 ills hla Decalo catalogues cataloguer Catal psalms and beliefs once the king says to patrick the druids druies all say that youre settin the minds of me astray low how can one be in three and be one all the time come laddy buck answer in prose or in rhyme alsy says patrick this dear little plant praise god twill be famous the oceans boyant has a stalk all in one but divides into t three I 1 yet the shamrock is one three in one dont you see Ba bedad dadi says the king that bangs Ba sure now byes to the druids druies Dru ids ye now have the flure but the sorra a word could those find so from then his respect for the druids druies declined now patrick me byes you need ned scarcely be was funny an tricky though holy an bould so now of the druids druies hed got the whip hand bethought him of blessings hed shower on the land TO the king then says he for the favors youve shown ill put eer a back and now new legs to your throne not mania the laste disrespect but you see the tha preachers dont speak such plain irish as aa woo cef in youth a 1 taught me ma herdin of swine your maje pardon the fault was not mine let me here introduce the tha bonee an ill go ball over the evils of erin the pig will prevail now the druids druies held sar pints as sacred you see in england they larned lamed that behtune you an me they would cast up in line sometimes nearly a mile the sods all as one as a var pints profile when this had been done sorra one ona durst complain though the land were his own and his fathers domain it was sacred and then for the sake of ills his bowl ile he must part wid it barrin a sigh or a growl then the snakes represented were holy likewise an bit at their will all the colleene colleens col leens leons an byes well the pigs went to bedad it was fun to watch the druids druies when their ruin bacun wid faces of fury and hearts full of late hate they would curse tho the dear pigs im ashamed to relate thoy they invoked all the planets and far as they know knew the fixed stars and conyets coni ets the sun and moon too next tho the wraiths that inhabit tho the winds find and tho the hoods floods thon then they danced holy jigs in tho scantiest of duds but the pigs took no notice but atrall ato all tho the more moio and the druids druies saw fate was now liard hard by the door then they prayed to tho the giants that ravaged the isle when texi ten foot of spine was the height of the style there was one who from mona alona oft waded to wales and one who in cou coughian cough ghin ln produced tha wild gales another in sport tried to bridge th the broad say the causeway in ulster bears witness today to day then the one who at Powers Pow ersco court furt drank up the fall an ta the ie one who complained devils dowl bowl was too small the priests cursed the pigs loud and long but no matter on pie snakes and atad their eggs they grow grew fatter and fatter oh those were great times when the factions forgot what side they were of and what side they were not the thousand would follow all 01 deerin the while the druids druies who could them no longer beguile I 1 when rivers reach as the i he bann or the doyne boyne baptized they the ranks of believers bol levera would join it we wap P patr patrick I 1 ck a alanna I 1 anna me tur turn a at y ye 0 plaise wid ald an gospel the land was ablaze such deppin dippin an ln baptizing zin such an pr preach eachin ln such prim pin an dressin dressen ln it WAS good for souls and their bodies by token the record for bathing his bli had broken and ad thousands never been lath ered or rubbed had their skins an their now most thoroughly scrubbed for the saint told them plainly for eor eer they were shriven that nothing was in heaven so the pigs ate the snakes and rooted up eggs from the round hill of howth do down wn to bally kil begs 11 I 1 alsy says patrick this dear ear little plant from the gap of danloe to the gle glen a 0 the downs and sheb na mon grandly Killar neya lake crowns there was an pr preaching eachin an laughter an prayer no wonder for satan to leave must prepare for barrin the saxon and whisky ill say saint patrick has rid us of evil today to day so bo now you all know how the snakes met their doom and the class clas will its studies in gaela resume |