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Title: Legends of the Saxon Saints

Author: Aubrey de Vere

Release Date: June 14, 2009 [EBook #29121]

Language: English

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THE SAXON SAINTS

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

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LEGENDS

OF THE

SAXON SAINTS

BY

AUBREY DE VERE

Hic sunt in fossa Bedae Venerabilis ossa

(_Old Inscription_)

LONDON
C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1879

(_The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved_)

_TO THE VENERABLE BEDE_

'Mid quiet vale or city lulled by night
Well-pleased the wanderer, wakeful on his bed,
Hears from far Alps on fitful breeze the sound
Of torrents murmuring down their rocky glens,
Strange voice from distant regions, alien climes:--
Should these far echoes from thy legend-roll
Delight of loftier years, these echoes faint,
Thus waken, thus make calm, one restless heart
In our distempered day, to th