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Today is St Patrick’s Day. Here’s a poem in tribute to him. I’m a bit late posting, I know, but I had to write it first! Of course, he didn’t really banish the snakes from Ireland, but it’s a good story.
St Patrick
A boy was captured and taken for a slave
Across the sea, but he remained brave.
A shepherd in Ireland for six long years
He escaped and ran home to family cheers.
A Christian he was, and hearing God’s call
Was ordained as a priest to the joy of all.
God called once again that he should go
Back to Ireland to preach, and so
He sailed once more across the sea.
And converted many to Christianity
And with his staff he gave a command
And all the snakes left that land.
On March seventeenth, in the year four sixty
He passed into Heaven on that isle so misty.
He’s remembered still by the Irish folk
On the isle of Ireland where he spoke
And all round the world where Irish dwell
They still remember, and his story they tell.
Dragons Rule OK. V.M.Sang (author) 
I hope you had a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day, Viv. A fun poetic story, most of which I didn’t know. 🙂
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Thank you, Diana. As far as I can tell, the only untrue bit is the part about the snakes, but it’s too good a story not to mention it.
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I didn’t know he’d been a slave in Ireland first. That was eye-opening.
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