by sympathy than even by benefits. That character can only be
understood by one who studies, and in a right spirit, that account
of his life which he bequeathed to us shortly before its close--the
"Confession of Saint Patrick." The last poem in this series
embodies its most characteristic portions, including the visions
which it records.

The "Tripartite Life" thus ends: --"After these great miracles,
therefore, after resuscitating the dead, after healing lepers, and
the blind, and the deaf, and the lame, and all diseases; after
ordaining bishops, and priests, and deacons, and people of all
orders in the Church; after teaching the men of Erin, and after
baptising them; after founding churches and monasteries; after
destroying idols and images and Druidical arts, the hour of death of
Saint Patrick approached. He received the body of Christ from the
Bishop Tassach, according to the counsel of the Angel Victor. He
resigned his spirit afterwards to Heaven, in the one hundred and
twentieth year of his age. His body is still here in the earth,
with honour and reverence. Though great his honour here, greater
honour will be to him in the Day of Judgment, when judgment will be
given on the fruit of his teaching, as of every great Apostle, in
the union of the Apostles and Disciples of Jesus; in the union of
the Nine Orders of Angels, which cannot be surpassed; in the union
of the Divinity and Humanity of the Son of God; in the union, which
is higher than all unions, of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and
Holy Ghost."
A. DE VERE.