The Martyrs’ throng;
All faithful witnesses, who hence have gone;
I gaze, and pause afresh to reach the throne.
O Unity in Trinity!
In mercy grant Thine aid;
O Trinity in Unity!
I seek thy shade,
Where Christ has made a covenant sure with me;
Oh, fearless, there let me abide with Thee!
There is a hymn by another author of Welsh extraction, St. Mugint, in the “Leabhar imuin,” beginning with the words “Parce dne.” The “Altus” of Columba, who arrived in Scotland from Ireland in 563, is a production of considerable length and much merit, in the A B C Darian style. It takes cognisance of the whole sphere of sacred and Scriptural truths, somewhat in the fashion of the compositions of the Brytho-Saxon Caedmon, and has been regarded as a highly effective “Lorica”:—