The Legends of Saint Patrick
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The opening
THE BAPTISM OF ST. PATRICK.
“How can the babe baptiséd be Where font is none and water none?” Thus wept the nurse on bended knee, And swayed the Infant in the sun.
“The blind priest took that Infant’s hand: With that small hand, above the ground He signed the Cross. At God’s command A fountain rose with brimming bound.
“In that pure wave from Adam’s sin The blind priest cleansed the Babe with awe; Then, reverently, he washed therein His old, unseeing face, and saw!
“He saw the earth; he saw the skies, And that all-wondrous Child decreed A pagan nation to baptise, To give the Gentiles light indeed.”
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