Dixit angelus regimen sit penes Ardmacho. Christo propter hæc gratias age; Ipse ad cœlos venies; Impetrasti adeoquæ petieras. XXVI. Hymnus decantatus tibi jam viventi, Erit lorica protectionis populis; In die judicii te comitabuntur Hiberni ad supremum judicem. XXVII. Remansit Tassachus post eum Quando ministravit communionem ipsi Dixit quod communicaturus esset Patricium Nec prophetia Tassachi erat falsa. XXVIII. Possuit tenebras nocti Ita quod apud eos erat indeficiens lui Spatio unius anni continuata lux erat Et ista continuata dies et prolongata erat. XXIX. Prælium gestum in Bethoron Contra populum Cananeorum per filium Nun In quo stetit sol contra Gabaoan Ut referunt sacræ litteraæ nobis. XXX. Quandoquidem sic steterit Josuæ Sol ad cædendos iniquos Esto triplo major sit hæc Lux potiori jure concedenda erat in mort hujus sancti. XXXI. Clerici enim Hiberniæ confluebant Ad celebrandas exequias Patricii undique Sonus concentus superni Reddebat ipsos sopore irruenti ubi humi decumbantes. XXXII. Anima Patricii a corpore Post labores seperata est, Angeli dei prima nocte, Excubias circa ipsum protinus agebant. XXXIII. Quando decessit Patricius Venit ad Patricium alterum Et simul ascenderunt Ad Jesum filium Mariæ. XXXIV. Patricius absque elationis nævo Multa bona excogitavit In servitio filii Mariæ Fælicibus natus est auspiciis. St. Fiech, the author of the above Hymn, was a disciple to Duvhach, poet laureate of Laoree, monarch of Ireland. He was converted by St. Patrick, who taught him the elements of the Latin language, in which he was enabled to read the bible after fifteen days' study. Fiech was appointed bishop of Leinster by his holy master, upon which he founded a celebrated monastery, called from him _Domnach-Fiech_, on the mountain of Sletty, about a mile to the north of Carlow, in the territory of Leix, now in the barony of Slieve-Margey, and Queen's county. In this church, the remains of which still exist, he also established a college, celebrated for producing many saints, as may be seen in Colgan's Lives of Irish Saints, &c. NOTES. _The figures refer to the stanzas_.