Produced by David Clarke, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) THE SAXON SAINTS BY THE SAME AUTHOR. =Alexander the Great:= a Dramatic Poem. Small crown 8vo. cloth, price 5_s._ =The Infant Bridal=, and other Poems. A New and Enlarged Edition. Fcp. 8vo. cloth, price 7_s._ 6_d._ =The Legends of St. Patrick=, and other Poems, Small crown 8vo. cloth, price 5_s._ =St. Thomas of Canterbury:= a Dramatic Poem. Large fcp. 8vo. cloth, price 5_s._ =Antar and Zara:= an Eastern Romance. INISFAIL, and other Poems, Meditative and Lyrical. Fcp. 8vo. price 6_s._ =The Fall of Rora, the Search after Proserpine=, and other Poems, Meditative and Lyrical. Fcp. 8vo. price 6_s._ London: C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 Paternoster Square. * * * * * BY THE LATE SIR AUBREY DE VERE, BART. =Mary Tudor:= an Historical Drama. =Julian the Apostate and the Duke of Mercia.= =A Song of Faith=, Devout Exercises and Sonnets. B. M. PICKERING. 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 thee the praise, Voice of past times, O Venerable Bede! PREFACE.