Page 44. _How beautiful, O Sion, are thy courts!_ The following hymns are from the Office for the Consecration of a Church. St. Fursey. Page 67. _How one with brow Lordlier than man's, and visionary eyes._ 'Whilst Sigebert still governed the kingdom there came out of Ireland a holy man named Fursey, renowned both for his words and actions, and remarkable for singular virtues, being desirous to live a stranger for Our Lord, wherever an opportunity should offer.... He built himself the monastery (Burghcastle in Suffolk) wherein he might with more freedom indulge his heavenly studies. There falling sick, as the book about his life informs us, he fell into a trance, and, quitting his body from the evening till the cockcrow, he was found worthy to behold the choirs of angels, and hear the praises which are sung in heaven.... He not only saw the greater joys of the Blessed, but also extraordinary combats of Evil Spirits.'--Bede, _Hist._ book iii. cap. xix. 'C'etait un moine irlandais nomme Fursey, de tres-noble naissance et celebre depuis sa jeunesse dans son pays par sa science et ses visions.... Dans la principale de ses visions Ampere et Ozanam se sont accordes a reconnaitre une des sources poetiques de la _Divine Comedie_.'--Montalembert, _Les Moines d'Occident_, tome iv. pp. 93-4. Page 116. _'None loveth Song that loves not Light and Truth.'_ This is one of the poetic aphorisms of Cadoc, a Cambrian prince and saint, educated in the Irish monastery of Lismore, and afterwards the founder of the great Welsh monastery of Llancarvan, in which he gave religious instruction to the sons of the neighbouring princes and chiefs. Page 120. _True life of man Is life within._ This thought is taken from one of St. Teresa's beautiful works. Page 141. _Ceadmon, the earliest bard of English song._ 'A part of one of Ceadmon's poems is preserved in King Alfred's Saxon version of Bede's _History_.' (Note to Bede's _Ecclesiastical History_, edited by Dr. Giles, p. 218.) Page 180. _Who told him tales of Leinster Kings, his sires._ 'L'origine irlandaise de Cuthbert est affirme sans reserve par Reeves dans ses _Notes sur Wattenbach_, p. 5. Lanigan (c. iii. p. 88) constate qu'Usher, Ware, Colgan, en ont eu la meme opinion.... Beaucoup d'autres anciens auteurs irlandais et anglais en font un natif de l'Irlande.'--Montalembert, _Les Moines d'Occident_, tome ii. pp. 391-2. Page 191. _The thrones are myriad, but the Enthroned is One._ Oft as Spring Decks on thy sinuous banks her thousand thrones, Seats of glad instinct, and love's carolling.' Wordsworth (addressed to the river Greta). Page 208. _Saint Frideswida, or the Foundations of Oxford._