Eureka Reporter | 1904-03-18 | Page 6 | The Deer's Cry

the deers cry st patricks beautiful hymn the dei s cr is of special interest as being fie ol 01 lest compos t on extant in the gael lang age it Is watten in a lery anc ent d albect and was corn po ed as the dmn shows when irelan 1 as largely pagan in the liber Hymn orum a manuscript of the eleventh century in wh ch it is preserve I 1 it is introduced by a short also 11 gael the saint is th sa d to 1 ave made it ahn on 1 s vay to visit ng lao aire 1 I eary at demair taia and the as lassins who had been set in ambush to slav him and his compan ons mis tool the chant ng of the lonca for the crying of passing deer and so al lo 10 el them to escape