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                       CASSELL’S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

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                               THE LEGENDS
                                    OF
                              SAINT PATRICK


                                    BY
                          AUBREY DE VERE, LL.D.

                      [Picture: Decorative graphic]

                       CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:
                      _LONDON_, _PARIS & MELBOURNE_.
                                   1892




INTRODUCTION.


ONCE more our readers are indebted to a living poet for wide circulation
of a volume of delightful verse.  The name of Aubrey de Vere is the more
pleasantly familiar because its association with our highest literature
has descended from father to son.  In 1822, sixty-seven years ago, Sir
Aubrey de Vere, of Curragh Chase, by Adare, in the county of
Limerick—then thirty-four years old—first made his mark with a dramatic
poem upon “Julian the Apostate.”  In 1842 Sir Aubrey published Son