The Scottish Celtic review

——Patrick')) Hymn. 53Against snares of demons,Against allurements of vices,Against solicitations of nature.Against every one who wishes evil to meAfar and near,Alone and in company.I have now invoked all these powers for my protection [lit.between me]Against every cruel, merciless power, which may comoagainst my body and ray soulAgainst incantations of false prophets,Against black laws of gentiles,Against false laws of heretics.Against craft of idolatry.Against spells of women and smiths and druids,Against every knowledge that defiles (?) the soul ofman.Christ to protect me to-day against poison.Against burning, against drowning, against wound,Until abundance of reward comes to me.Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me, Christ below me,Christ aliove me, Christ at my right,Christ at my left,Christ in breadth,Christ in length, Christ in heightChrist in the heart of every one who thinks of me,Christ in the mouth of every one who speaks to me,Christ in every eye that sees me,Christ in every ear that hears me.I bind myself to-day to the power (a strong ijivocation)—the TrinityBelief in threeness—confession of oneness in the Creator.[This hymn forms one of the Irish hymns in the " Liber Hymnorum,"a MS. belonging to Trinity College, Dublin, and written,as Dr. Stokes conjectures, about the end of the eleventh, or thebeginning of the twelfth century. The hymn itself, however,belongs to a much earlier date.The text now printed follows that recently published by Prof.Windisch, of Leipzig, in his valuable work, " Irische Teste mitWorterbuch," to which we take this opportunity of directing theattention of Scottish students of Old Irish.In preparing the translation, Prof Windisch's Notes and Die-