Ring praises unceasing, rejoicing in song,
Where crowns are cast down at Immanuel’s feet,
And anthems eternal the elders repeat.
The judgements of heaven shall be scattered abroad
On all who deny that our Saviour is God;
But we shall be raised up with Jesus on high,
To where the new mansions all glorious lie.
There is a Gaelic hymn attributed to Columba, which illustrates the manner and occasions of using these “Loricae”—in Gaelic lurech. Its superscription runs thus: “Colum cilli cecinit, while passing alone; and it will be a protection to the person who will repeat it going on a journey.” The author in the first verse represents himself as lonely on the hillside, and addressing the royal “Sun.” M’oenuran dam is in sliabh, &c.:—
“Alone am I in the mountain,