Show his MEMORY KAR st patrick ever held in honor in the la land of saints and scholars REL UND la Is unique in its every 1 chase tharo ts to no other land like it in its te nahe charm ireland la is a land by itself A ith a history of its own ex tending eo so far back a to ba be lost in antiquity falth ith saints and kings and masters and bard bards so characteristically iL irish that they are not names alone as are the great of other lands but are as familiar to all her children of all ages it eland heland perhaps more than any other country has preserved to the present day tho the evidence of her ilch itch and varied past in archeological treasures man many and unique tho the irish love their legendary he roes and heroines the brave diarmid the chivalrous and grainne Gral the essentially feminine her saints she haa has adored through all tho the centuries of her existence and to her masters and flurda she has accorded a rank that gives her just right to her title the land of saints and schol are ars 11 st patrick the patron saint of ireland though dead a thousand thov sand years la is as real and close a personality of life to the irish folk as it if he had but lately walked among them it Is as dear st patrick kind patrick mild patrick one cue listens to him spoken of in ordinary speech st patricks day services in dublin are attended attend d by the great majority of the population of all denominations tor for he 19 truly the beloved of 0 all in st patricks cathedral built upon the site of the chapel erected in V C y A V 4 4 V aa t main portion and spire of st pat patrick ricks cathedral by st patrick the elaborate service is participated in by many hundreds of people the psalm tor for tho the day Is the twentieth because it Is recalled it was chanted by st patrick and hla companions when hen they defied kin king 9 leary and his pagan druids at tar hill the anthem almost universally sung on that day Is a render rendering hig of 0 tha tbs breastplate of st patrick here Is one of the stanzas of this expression of devotion to christianity I 1 bind to myself today he tte power of heaven the light of the sun of avow the force orce of ire fire the flash of lightning the 0 of wind tho the depth of the sea the stability of the earth the ha chariness harJ of rocke rocks it was jas of st patricks cathedral that swift was for or a time dean ilia ills buat bust by cunningham considered the best beet likeness of tho the satirist Is eliere as Is hh tomb and monument trinity college the great educational center of ireland with its of historic accruement contains IL I 1 its t s library many of irelands most ared relics the harp of drian brian boru the bedol belol beloved ed king of ireland who died at tho hands of the invading inia ding danen darien at itt the ba battle atle of Clon tari arf elands stands there it was as a dark good friday for ireland when hen the the fierce moving liaa arous Ia danara nars blue green n pagan pagans hungry for tl the eoll soil of erin sweet grassy many bambha slew the daout king with bis his son aud his grandson turlough |