“I have not inserted these lines”, says Dr. Trench, “in the body of this collection, lest I might seem to claim for them that entire sympathy which I am very far from doing. Yet, believing as we may, and, to give any meaning to a large period of Church history, we must, that Papal Rome of the middle ages had a work of God to accomplish for the taming of a violent and brutal world, in the midst of which she often lifted up the only voice which was anywhere heard in behalf of righteousness and truth—all of which we may believe, with the fullest sense that her dominion was an unrighteous usurpation, however overruled for good to Christendom, which could then take no higher blessing—believing this, we may freely admire these lines, so nobly telling of that true strength of spiritual power, which may be perfected in the utmost weakness of all other power. It is the city of Rome which speaks: Dum simulacra mihi, dum numina vana placerent, Militiâ, populo, moenibus alts fui: At simul effigies, arasque superstitiosas Dejiciens, uni sum famulata Deo; Cesserunt arces, cecidere palatia divum, Servivit populis, degeneravit eques. Vix scio quae fuerim: vix Romae Roma recordor; Vix sinit occasus vel meminisse mei. Gratior haec jactura mihi successibus illis, Major sum pauper divite, stante jacens. Plus aquilis vexilla crucis, plus Caesare Petrus, Plus cinctis ducibus vulgus inerme dedit. Stans domui terras; infernum diruta pulso; Corpora stans, animas fracta jacensque rego. Tunc miserae plebi, nunc principibus tenebrarum Impero; tunc urbes, nunc mea regna polus. Quod ne Caesaribus videar debere vel armis, Et species rerum meque meosque trahat, Armorum vis illa perit, ruit alta Senatûs Gloria, procumbunt templa, theatra jacent. Rostra vacant, edicta silent, sua praemia desunt Emeritis, populo jura, colonus agris. Ista jacent, ne forte meus spem ponat in illis Civis, et evacuet spemque bonumque crucis. THE MSS. REMAINS OF PROFESSOR O’CURRY IN THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY. NO. II. _Prayer of St. Aireran the Wise, ob._. 664. [In the first number of the RECORD we published from the manuscripts of the late Professor O’Curry the Prayer of St. Colga of Clonmacnoise. We now publish another beautiful devotional piece from the same collection. Speaking of ancient Irish religious works now remaining, O’Curry says (at page 378 of his great work): “The fifth class of these religious remains consists of the prayers, invocations, and litanies, which have came down to us”. The Prayer of St. Colga, published in our last number, is placed by O’Curry in the second place among these documents, which he sets down in chronological order.