There is not a saint in the bright courts of Heaven More faithful than he to the land of his choice; Oh, well may the nation to whom he was given, In the feast of their sire and apostle rejoice! In glory above, True to his love, He keeps the false faith from his children away: The dark false faith, That is worse than death, Oh, he drives it far off from the green sunny shore, Like the reptiles which fled from his curse in dismay; And Erin, when error’s proud triumph is o’er, Will still be found keeping Saint Patrick’s Day. Edward Caswall (1814-78), who resigned his Anglican living in 1847, was received into the Roman Church in 1850. He is a more successful translator than composer, his best original hymn being ‘Days and moments quickly flying.’ His translations from the Latin and German are in all our hymnals. Romish hymnals contain many prayers for the reconversion of England. There is something pathetic in such lines as these in a hymn of Father Potter’s— Oh! yet once more, o’er English fields, The glorious Cross shall wave; The solace of the broken heart, The standard of the brave. Oh, isle of Saints! oh, Mary’s dower! How long ere this shall be? When wilt thou rise, throw off thy chains, And once again be free? But if our Romish brethren sing thus, why should not we teach our children Mr. Gill’s stirring hymn, which includes the lines Sing how He His England crownèd, When He loosed the yoke of Rome? Have we not as good cause for praise as they for prayer? One turns from the study of Romish hymn-books with a sense of having travelled in a far country, where yet there is much to remind one of the home-land. There is a great gulf, as we thankfully acknowledge, between even the High Anglican and the Romanist—a considerable portion of the Romish hymn-book is, and we trust ever will be, impossible to the bulk of English Christians. On the other hand, one can neglect the chaff and gather golden grain, for saintly Romanists have a genius for devotion. It is much to be wished that the readiness with which we have adopted hymns from Roman Catholic sources had been reciprocated. But almost all the great English hymns are missing from Catholic hymnals. The Arundel editors admit translations by Dr. Neale, and even Miss Winkworth, but no original hymns save those by writers of their own faith. Mr. Tozer, in his _Catholic Hymns_, includes Charlotte Elliott’s ‘Thy Will be done,’ and gives the author’s name, but I am afraid he did not know she was a Protestant—though I hope he did.