Excerpt from The Legends of Saint Patrick Tudor should be read by all who have read Tennyson's play on the same subject. The gift of genius passed from Sir Aubrey to his third son, Aubrey Thomas de Vere, who was born in 1814, and through a long life has put into music only noble thoughts associated with the love of God and man, and of his native land; -his first work, published forty-seven years ago, was a lyrical piece, in which he gave his sympathy to devout and per scouted men whose ways of thought were not his own. Aubrey de Vere's poems have been from time to time revised by himself, and they were in 1884 finally collected into three volumes, pub lished by Messrs. Kegan Paul. Left free to choose from among their various contents, I have taken this little book of Legends of St. Patrick, first published in 187 2, but in so doing I have un willingly left many a piece that would please many a reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.