 | Mary Catharine Guinness Ferguson - 1868 - 326 pages
...mine, From its centre to its border, 1 would prefer the site of one house In the middle of fair Derry. The reason I love Derry is, For its quietness, for...God, in heaven above, Woe be to him who violates it ! Beloved are Durrow and Derry ; Beloved is Raphoe in purity ; Beloved Drumhone of rich fruits ; Beloved... | |
 | lady Mary Catharine Ferguson - 1868 - 350 pages
...its border, 1 would prefer the site of one house In the middle of fair Derry. The reason I love Deny is, For its quietness, for its purity, And for its...God, in heaven above, Woe be to him who violates it ! Beloved are Durrow and Derry ; Beloved is Eaphoe in purity ; Beloved Drumhone of rich fruits ; Beloved... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 778 pages
...». Steven's Monast., vol. I, p. 421. ' Annal. Afuntt. r Tr. Th.,p. 503 and 506. Act. SS.,p. 566. " My Derry, my little oak grove, My dwelling, and my...was more than once fulfilled in aftertimes. Thus, in 1 195. when a body of the Norman invaders plundered the abbey, they were immediately after intercepted... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - 1906 - 620 pages
...for its quietness, for its purity, crowded full of heaven's angels in every leaf of the oaks of Deny. My Derry, my little oak grove, my dwelling and my...in heaven above, woe be to him who violates it.'" Besides Derry, two other famous monasteries were founded in Ireland by St. Columcille. One was Durrow,... | |
 | John Healy - 1890 - 668 pages
...crowds of white angels From one end to the other. My Deny ! mine own little grove ! My dwelling, my dear little cell ; O eternal God, in heaven above, Woe be to him, who violates it 1" 'From-all the highlands and valleys of Tir-conn ell his kith and kin rallied round the young monk... | |
 | Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, Sir John Goronwy Edwards - 1890 - 874 pages
...every leaf of the oaks of Derry. My Derry, my little oak-grove, My dwelling, and my little cell ; 0 eternal God, in heaven above, Woe be to him who violates it ! Beloved are Durrow, and Derry, Beloved is Raphoe, in purity ; Beloved Drumhome of rich fruits ; Beloved... | |
 | 1899 - 1120 pages
...purity, And for its crowd of white angels From the one end to the other. My Derry, my little oak-grove, My dwelling, and my little cell, O Eternal God in heaven above, Woe to him who violates it ! " If the lines referring to Adamnan were in the original poem, we must give... | |
 | Douglas Hyde - 1903 - 688 pages
...crowded full of heaven's angels ii every leaf of the oaks of Derry. My Derry, my little oak grove, mi dwelling and my little cell, O Eternal God in heaven above, woe be t< him who violates it." " Is aire, caraim Doire Ar a reidhe, ar a ghloine, "s ar iomatt a aingel find... | |
 | Magnus Maclean - 1906 - 426 pages
...and for the crowds of white angels from the one end to the other. . . . My Deny, my little oak-grove, my dwelling and my little cell, O eternal God in heaven above, woe be to him who violates it. Ara was a little isle, like lona, in the west of Ireland, where St. Enda lived, and was visited by... | |
 | William Sanday - 1907 - 358 pages
...purity, Crowded full of heaven's angels Is every leaf of the oaks of Deny. My Deny, my little oak-grove, My dwelling, and my little cell ; O Eternal God, in heaven above, Woe be to him who violates it! The delight of the poet in his little cell is a feeling partly natural and partly religious. It is in part... | |
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Derry. The reason I love Derry is, For its quietness, for its purity, And for its crowds of white angels From the one end to the other. The reason why I love Derry is, For its quietness, for its purity ; Crowded full of heaven's angels Is every leaf of... 
