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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 113 |
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In this hour of hours, I place all those powers Between myself and every foe Who threaten my body and soul With danger or dole, To protect me against the evils that flow From lying soothsayers' incantations, From the gloomy laws of the Gentile nations, From heresy's hateful innovations, From idolatry's rites and invocations. Be those my defenders, My guards against every ban — And spell of smiths, and Druids, and women; In fine against every knowledge that renders The light Heaven sends us dim in The spirit and soul of man !
May Christ, I pray, Protect me to-day Against poison and fire, Against drowning and wounding; That so, in His grace abounding, I may earn the preacher's hire !
Christ as a light
Illumine and guide me ! Christ as a shield o'ershadow and cover me ! Christ be under me !—Christ be over me !
Christ be beside me,
On left hand and right! Christ be before me, behind me, about me ; Christ this day be within and without me! |
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