THE SAXON SAINTS 
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LEGENDS

OF THE

SAXON SAINTS
BY
Aubrey de Vere
Hic sunt in fossa Bedæ Venerabilis ossa
(Old Inscription)
LONDON
C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1879
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TO THE
VENERABLE BEDE
'Mid quiet vale or city lulled by night
Well-pleased the wanderer, wakeful on his bed,
Hears from far Alps on fitful breeze the sound
Of torrents murmuring down their rocky glens,
Strange voice from distant regions, alien climes:—
Should these far echoes from thy legend-roll
Delight of loftier years, these echoes faint,
Thus waken, thus make calm, one restless heart
In our distempered day, to thee the praise,
Voice of past times, O Venerable Bede!
[Pg vii]
PREFACE.
Many years ago a friend remarked to me on the strangeness of thecircumstance that the greatest event in the history of a nation, itsconversion to Christianity, largely as it is often recorded in nationallegends, has never been selected as a theme for poetry. That event mayindeed not supply the materials necessary for an Epic or a Drama, yet itcan hardly fail to abound in details significant and pathetic, whichespecially invite poetic illustration. With the primary interest of thatgreat crisis, many others, philosophical, social, and political,generally connect themselves. Antecedent to a nation's conversion, theevents of centuries have commonly either conduced to it, or thrownobstacles in its way; while the history as well as the character of thatnation in the [Pg viii]subsequent ages is certain to have been in                        
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