Saints of Green Springtime! Saints of the Year! Patraic and Grighair, Brighid be near! My last breath gather with God's Foster Father! Saints of Green Springtime! Saints of the Year!
Saints of Gold Summer! Saints of the Year! (Poesy wingeth me! Fancy far bringeth me!) Guide ye me on to Mary's Sweet Son! Saints of Gold Summer! Saints of the Year!
Saints of Red Autumn! Saints of the Year! Lo! I am cheery! Michil and Mary Open wide Heaven to my soul bereaven! Saints of Red Autumn! Saints of the Year!
Saints of Grey Winter Saints of the Year! Outside God's Palace fiends wait in malice-- Let them not win my soul going in! Saints of Grey Winter! Saints of the Year!
Saints of Four Seasons! Saints of the Year! Waking or sleeping, to my grave creeping, Life in its Night, hold me God's light! Saints of Four Seasons! Saints of the Year!
Blackbird, who pourest praise, Deep hidden 'neath the bough, No bell to call the Hours Thou needest, thou; Each hour, O hermit, from thy throat, Wells thy sweet, soft, peaceful note.
Time was, I was not here; Short the time for me, I fear! Death comes, that is clear; It is not clear when death is near.
High trees close me round Far from the ground the blackbird sings, Trilling, it chants its lay Above my well-lined book to-day.
In its soft veil of grey The wayward cuckoo calls aloud; Within my wall of green, My God shrouds me, all unseen.
By Mael-Isu ("Servant of Jesus"), of Derry, _obit._ 1038.
_Deus meus adiuva me_, Give me thy love, O Christ, I pray, Give me thy love, O Christ, I pray, _Deus meus adiuva me_.
_In meum cor ut sanum sit_, Pour, loving King, Thy love in it, Pour, loving King, Thy love in it, _In meum cor ut sanum sit_.
_Domine, da ut peto a te_, O, pure bright sun, give, give to-day, O, pure bright sun, give, give to-day, _Domine, da ut peto a te_.
_Hanc spero rem et quaero quam_ Thy love to have where'er I am, Thy love to have where'er I am, _Hanc spero rem et quaero quam_.
_Tuum amorem sicut uis_, Give to me swiftly, strongly, this, Give to me swiftly, strongly, this, _Tuum amorem sicut uis_.
_Quaero, postulo, peto a te_, That I in heaven, dear Christ, may stay, That I in heaven, dear Christ, may stay, _Quaero, postulo, peto a te_.
_Domine, Domine, exaudi me_, Fill my soul, Lord, with Thy love's ray, Fill my soul, Lord, with Thy love's ray, _Domine, Domine, exaudi me_. _Deus meus adiuva me_, _Deus meus adiuva me_.